Sentence examples for earlier relatives from inspiring English sources

A few hours earlier, relatives and friends of Mr. Carson gathered at his mother's Harlem apartment, saying they wished to mourn in private.

Earlier, relatives of those who are thought to have perished in the disaster gathered for a service in the parish church.

In lampreys, for example, certain parts of the brain and the mouth that distinguish the animals from earlier relatives begin a rapid decay within 24 hours.

The co-occurrence of fossils of dinosaurs and their earlier relatives in New Mexico and elsewhere imply that the Late Triassic rise of dinosaurs was gradual, not sudden.

Earlier, relatives of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler went to Downing Street for talks with Mr Clegg about the public inquiries into phone-hacking.

Earlier, relatives of the missing complained that the snow-bound hotel should have been evacuated before the avalanche hit late on Wednesday afternoon.

Why the earlier relative dawdle?

It was originally thought that the African and Asian elephants were sister taxa to each other and mammoths were an earlier relative in their evolutionary history.

The relationship between the plasma melatonin rhythm and the timing of sleep was such that the older subjects were sleeping and waking earlier relative to their nightly melatonin secretory episode.

Monitoring schemes developed in this study issue alerts earlier relative to the day of diagnosis of udder, reproductive, or metabolic problems, are more sensitive, and give fewer false-positive alerts than the disease detection system currently used on the farm.

Since oxygen delivery is partially dependent on available Hb, the lower the Hb, the earlier relative tissue hypoxia will occur, especially in a hypermetabolic state such as sepsis.