Examples

"on earlier occasions"

Used in print

Vandiver likely will mention the $ 100 million highway bond issue approved earlier in the session as his first priority item .

He dropped his earlier and delightful hamming , which is about the only way to handle the old war_horse called `` Charley's_Aunt '' , and let himself go_with as an appealing an `` Amy '' as anybody could ask .

The sections were mounted on cold slides smeared with Haupts ' adhesive ( Johansen , 1940 ) in earlier experiments , and in later experiments with a different mixture of the same components reported by Schramm and Rottger ( 1959 ) .

Below we use our earlier examples to describe and illustrate these four properties .

Our technical assistance to these countries should place special emphasis on inducing the central governments to assume the role of advisor and guide which at an earlier stage foreign experts assumed in dealing with the central governments .

Related terms

past

Synonyms

before

Examples

"I had known her before" "as I said before" "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier" "her parents had died four years earlier" "I mentioned that problem earlier"

Used in print

Heydrich , in opening the Conference , followed the reasoning and even the phraseology of the order issued earlier by Goering which authorized the Final_Solution as `` a complement to '' previous `` solutions '' for eliminating the Jews from German living_space through violence , economic_strangulation , forced emigration , and evacuation .

This damage had been done in the battle of Vientiane , fought less_than three months earlier when four successive governments had ruled here in three days ( December 9 - 11 , 1960 ) .

Rather than from a first-hand study of Jewish people , his delineation of Shylock stems from a collection of Italian stories , Il_Pecorone , published in 1558 , although written almost two centuries earlier .

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem , for_example , is the effect produced by the enforced quiet , by the musical quality of words and rhythm , by the sentiments or sense of the poem , by the associations with earlier readings , if it is familiar , by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate , by the diversion of attention , by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal , by a kind license for some variety of fantasy_life regarded_as forbidden , or by half conscious ideas about the magical_power of words ?

As shown earlier , the highly anxious individual may be superior in his memorizing of simple elements .

Synonyms

sooner

Examples

"Come a little sooner, if you can" "came earlier than I expected"

Used in print

0.2 gram Dynafac per head daily ( 1 gram of premix per head daily ) for promoting growth , feed conversion , bloom , and full feed earlier .

1.0 gram premix per head per day for promoting growth , feed conversion , and getting lambs on full feed earlier .

The route which he had traveled and which he believed might develop_into a trade_route was followed by his settlers earlier than he might have expected .

Second , vocational courses should be provided in grades 11 and 12 and not require more_than half the student 's time in those years ; however , for slow learners and prospective dropouts these courses ought_to begin earlier .

The consciousness it mirrors may have come earlier to Europe than to America , but it is the consciousness that most `` mature '' societies arrive_at when their successes in technological and economic systematization propel them into a time of examining the not strictly practical ends of culture .

Synonyms

in_the_first_place to_begin_with in_the_beginning originally

Examples

"why didn't you tell me in the first place?"

Used in print

Earlier this month Edward_R._Murrow , director of the United_States_Information_Agency , came to Hollywood and had dinner with more_than 100 leaders of the motion_picture industry .

Synonyms

earliest

Examples

"a fashion popular in earlier times" "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher" "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"

Related terms

comparative early