Sentence examples for been much earlier from inspiring English sources
But it could have been much earlier, perhaps even as early as the album "Off the Wall," from 1979.
Using this sort of "dead reckoning," most linguists agree that the earliest attested Indo-European languages Anatolian, Indo-Iranian, and Greek are different enough that the parent language must have been split into several distinct languages before 3000 bce, but similar enough that the first split into separate languages is not likely to have been much earlier than about 4500 bce.
But the judge advocate general's office made the mistake of attaching a copy of its own confidential investigation, which came to a very different conclusion: that the riot had been much earlier in the day and the soldiers who shot the child should not have opened fire.
The exact date of Gubazes's accession is unknown, but it must not have been much earlier than 541, when he is first attested as king of the Lazi.
We therefore restricted our analyses to those Meg homologs displaying reliable sequence similarity, although the actual evolutionary origin of this gene family is likely to have been much earlier.
Looking at this photograph today, you would think it was much earlier than 1968.
The earliest extant copy of the song's text dates from 1407, but its origins are much earlier.
These date in Assamese from the 16th century, while in the Ahom language they are much earlier.
JOHN LELAND TIME CHANGE I get up when I wake up, which as a middle-aged person is much earlier than it was when I was young.
Although the earliest dynasty confirmed by archaeology is the Shang dynasty (18th 12th century bce), the historical period that Confucius claimed as relevant was much earlier.
