Sentence examples for about five years earlier from inspiring English sources

The phrase "about five years earlier" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a time frame that is approximately five years prior to a specific event or date.
Example: "The project was initiated about five years earlier than originally planned."
Alternatives: "roughly five years prior" or "approximately five years before".

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About five years earlier, this cafe was where I first worked up the nerve to talk to the woman who would become my wife.

He immediately remembered the one he had bestowed on the reporter about five years earlier (Don't ask; the explanation is far too involved to go into).

About five years earlier, on a November trip to London, I had seen people swimming in the Serpentine in Hyde Park.

And because Princeton had let slip a semi-off-colored joke on ABC Wide World of Sports about five years earlier they had never broadcast any more of our halftimes in the intervening five years.

About five years earlier, Coca-Cola expanded to 25.03% of holdings.

About five years earlier, Rose retired from her position in anthropology at Fresno City College because of poor health.

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The authorities understood that she had done so about thirteen years earlier.

But about three hundred years earlier, the study of physical substance began to move beyond the observations of the classical world.

Speaking French, he said that he had found it in a nearby field about twenty-five yearlierrli

Women seemed to focus on their significant others at the age of 18, about four years earlier than men.

Surviving it leaves me feeling like Marianne Faithfull about twenty years earlier than I thought I might.

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