Sentence examples for earlier and second from inspiring English sources

In 2012 Japanese firms spent more than $110 billion on 736 overseas acquisitions, four times as many as five years earlier, and second only to firms in America, a much larger economy.

First, there actually is no vibrating motor, as thought earlier, and second, the new iPod touch has half of the iPhone 4's RAM at 256MB.

22. von Wright 1953 and in the earlier (and first) edition of Prior 1962 [1955].

Rogers is the third to come out after a Swedish player Anton Hysén in 2011 and the earlier and first case of Justin Fashanu eleven years before.

First, it is early, and second, one can see how the church would not want to emphasize or pass it on -- hence the bogus ending added to Mark.

When the pair approached the stretch, Bailey gunned his colt early and first, stunning his rival.

This essay reads early and nineteenth-century American texts about paper that show how affiliation and political community could inhere within material texts.

CT perfusion imaging should be carried out during an early and first-pass process of contrast medium enhancement.

But as temperatures rise, snow is melting earlier and the first hard frosts are occurring later.

Extant versions are based solely on early copies and first printings from Mozart's own day.

(It has also blocked Florida's decision to curtail early voting and third-party registration drives).