Sentence examples for Earlier from inspiring English sources
The word 'earlier' is correct and can be used in written English
It can be used to refer to something that happened or existed before a specific time in the past. For example: I had visited that museum earlier this summer.
adverb
Comparative of early
Family would appreciate that their earlier appeal re privacy applies to Carole and family too".
An earlier version said Samantha Cameron had accompanied the prime minister to Balmoral in September.
What a nightmare!" There had been delays involving Clapham Junction earlier in the rush hour due to a lineside fire which caused hold-ups to services on London Overground.
The first that other judges knew of his plan to contest the appointment of Boddice – who had been nominated two months earlier under a 20-year protocol – was a public statement the next day that it was "a matter for the chief justice under the electoral act".
I want to make sure you can use it as an indirect letter of support for your project so you can go back to Walt [Secord, chief of staff for then-premier Kristina Keneally]." Earlier in the day, Liberal MP Marie Ficarra denied arranging for a property developer to give $5,000 to Eightbyfive to skirt electoral funding laws that prohibited political parties from accepting such donations.
An apocryphal story says that a few days earlier, the then 22-year-old was at the Cannes film festival, leaving a screening of Steven Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape.
Lest that sound like faint praise, he quickly qualifies it: earlier this week, in a day trip around Stockholm's record shops, he added 50 singles to his already mammoth Abba collection.
All the medical experts who gave evidence in the case earlier this week said the chances of the unborn child surviving were minimal.
"Two Olympic victories, the hockey and Crimea," said Trifonova, referring to the Russian team's victories in the Winter Olympics and paralympics held in Sochi earlier this year, as well as in the recent ice hockey world championships, and the annexation by Moscow of the Crimea peninsula.
A survey earlier this year conducted by the benevolent fund of the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA) asked 500 cricketers present and past a range of questions about mental and physical health.
Earlier this week, Valls said the removal of a person's nationality "is a legitimate question that arises regarding the consequences to which a person exposes themselves when they decide to attack the nation to which they belong because they were born there or have been accepted there".
