Sentence examples for earlier not from inspiring English sources

She began opening that evening bottle earlier and earlier, not waiting until the kids' bedtime.

She had entered it herself a few months earlier, not long after graduating from Columbia University.

There's a theme of disappointment – Tom told Sybil earlier not to disappoint him.

Prosecutors had decided earlier not to seek the death penalty in his case, without explaining why.

The cheap editions began a little earlier, not in London, but in Glasgow.

If our detailed interview uncovered one serious illness in the making, we'd be poised to treat it earlier, not later.

"I've been practicing like I've never practiced," Zoref had told me earlier, not long after touching down in California.

It was Tom Lewis's blood, drawn from his arm four years earlier, not long before he died.

We should have stood up to the butchery in Syria earlier — not to mention the killings in Darfur and elsewhere.

It has Kennedy being assassinated three years earlier, not in Dallas but in Palm Beach, Fla.

It was this year through April, compared with the period a year earlier -- not solely April.