Erm, can we link it up to any earlier pattern?

It marked a decided break with earlier patterns of relationship between the church and educational institutions.

Joseph looked around the familiar room, almost like an earlier pattern of his own in Cambridge.

But she helped break the early pattern of heartache for her country.

The early patterns often freeze in place and last forever.

We'll go back to our earlier pattern: three or four targets per massacre.

Operations against criminals in the late 1980s had police claiming they would not be following on the earlier pattern.

Some early patterns are still in production, along with new designs.

Can this spending be brought under control without returning to earlier patterns of neglect?

The concentration apparently marks a return to an earlier pattern.