Sentence examples for earlier largely from inspiring English sources

William Gorman, the mayor of Hazard, invited the president to visit his town months earlier, largely to show how well Appalachia is doing.

The Chinese government said exports climbed 46 percent in February, compared with a year earlier, largely because of a rebound in demand from the United States and other Western countries.

The richest of them all was Bill Gates, although his estimated wealth of $63 billion was well below the $85 billion it had been a year earlier, largely because of Microsoft's tumbling share price.

The country was shocked this week by the seemingly unrepentant performance of three top Scotland Yard figures, two now retired, who oversaw the earlier, largely toothless, investigations of The News of the World.

Carlos Castresana, the head of a UN-appointed investigative commission, had resigned three days earlier largely because Mr Reyes, whom he accused of having ties to criminal groups, remained in office.

In the House, the McCain attack has caused Democrats to revive an earlier, largely overlooked flap in which charges of anti-Catholicism marred a bipartisan attempt to choose a new chaplain.

But in its early, largely low-key campaign, the leaders of Learn NY have drawn the ire of some of the most active and vocal parent-advocates in the city.

In her work, as in her life, Lessing was unafraid of experimentation and radical departures; her early, largely autobiographical, social realist novels making way for her science-fiction Canopus series, of which she was personally the most proud.

She was fascinated by the early, largely unpublished clinical and theoretical material – some of it handwritten in Gothic German script, some typed, with many corrections, on thin blue paper – and she began to publish her findings.

Another impediment to absolute rule in Europe, in Dr. Fukuyama's telling, was that the concept of the rule of law emerged very early, largely because of the church's development of canon law in the 11th century.

And despite its early, largely non-consumer applications, eventually those core technologies began to disrupt almost every industry that had existed before it.