Hi Hans (apologies for not hitting the right button to reply to the mailing list just before),
I checked with context version 2012.07.07 15:04, and it is still broken. I have pasted a minimal example below.
Another thing I noticed was that 'align' feature of \setupformulas is broken too. (It has been commented out below in case you want to test that too.
Best regards,
Prash

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%\setupformulas[align=right]
\starttext
\placeformula[eq:ate-intr]
\startformula
\text{Jane slept.}
\stopformula
   \startfloatcombination [2*1]
    \placetable[force][tab:eq1]{Sentence 1}{
      \bTABLE[frame=off,align=center]
      \bTR
      \bTD Jack \eTD
      \bTD ate \eTD
      \eTR
      \eTABLE
    }
    \placetable[force][tab:eq2]{Sentence 2}{
      \bTABLE[frame=off,align=center]
      \bTR
      \bTD John \eTD
      \bTD ate \eTD
      \bTD a \eTD
      \bTD banana \eTD
      \eTR
      \eTABLE
    }
\stopfloatcombination
\stoptext
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On 07/07/12 15:23, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 7-7-2012 15:18, Prashanth wrote:

Hi,
I understand that \startfloatcombination was an experimental feature in
the previous builds anyway, but it is broken in the latest nightly.

Thank you for the rapid fixes so far!

I just did an upload ... if it still fails I need an example.

Hans

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