Sentence examples for earliest of four from inspiring English sources

The Restoration of the Great Song was one of the earliest of four "historical novels" (fictionalized dynastic chronologies) written about Yue during the Ming Dynasty, all of which predate The Story of Yue Fei.

Worms can be readily synchronized at the L1 stage, which is the earliest of four larval stages preceding adulthood.

The exit date was the earliest of four dates: date of first hip fracture, date of death, last date under observation or 31 December 2008.

For the remaining women, observation extended from the date of recruitment to the date of the earliest of four possible outcomes: cancer diagnosis, emigration, death, or end of follow-up.

It was the earliest of nine triptychs he painted during his career, and was acquired by New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1942.

Kwee's work is the earliest of three Chinese Malay novels which were inspired by volcanic eruptions.

Noting the deaths a day earlier of four boys who were killed on a Gaza beach by an Israeli strike, the State Department said the high civilian death toll in Gaza has been "heartbreaking".

Dhurandhar's battle against the conventional wisdom was reminiscent of the struggle a decade earlier of two Australian scientists, who were also proposing an infectious cause for a chronic disease, in their case, a bacterium that causes ulcers.

(For buildings being converted to co-ops, the initial sponsor control period is the earlier of five years or the point at which 50percentt of the shares have been sold).

The raid followed the murder, a fortnight earlier, of two police officers who had their throats slit while investigating a camp run by Jamaah Ansharut Tauhid, a group that the US blacklisted at the start of the year.

Since June 29, Hamas has claimed responsibility for only one other lethal suicide bombing, killing one Israeli a week ago in stated retaliation for Israel's killing days earlier of two Hamas militants.