Sentence examples for is slightly earlier from inspiring English sources

Another biographer, Ascanio Condivi, says no, the painting is slightly earlier, done maybe in 1487, before Michelangelo's apprenticeship.

The timing is slightly earlier than usual, with Apple tending to make updates available at 10am pacific time.

During walking, the peaks of main bursts at C7 and T3 occurred in the middle of double support (26±6%, 29±4% and 74±9%, 79±4%), which is slightly earlier than during gait initiation.

29 30 Previous data from Danish boys have shown that the median age at first ejaculation (spermache) was 13.4 years, 31 and mean age at voice break was 14 years, 32 which is slightly earlier than in the present study.

For example, the permanent maxillary incisors appear to differentiate at similar times, but initiation of mineralisation of the lateral incisor occurs later than the central whereas crown completion is slightly earlier for the lateral than the central.

In the Upper Congo River Basin, the fishing season is slightly earlier (mid-June to September), and fishermen crowd into camps on islands that emerge during the dry season but are below water during the rainy season.

Sean Simpson shut down a rink he maintains in downtown Ottawa on March 2, which was slightly earlier than usual.

That was slightly earlier than planned, meaning he did not break the world record for longest freefall.

It might have been slightly earlier but for another poor decision from Aleem Dar, the prince of umpires, who is having a poor trot and reprieved Pragyan Ojha for a clear bat-pad catch.

But heightened realism was just a subordinate means for Rubens, as it had been, slightly earlier, for Caravaggio, to accomplish the pictorial revolution of the seventeenth century: eclipsing Mannerism's distorted figures set in windowlike, perspectival recesses with rounded, convincing bodies in an airy space that opens outward, to envelop the viewer.

The five concertos for violin, all from this period (No. 1 may be slightly earlier), show a remarkable growth over a few months in confidence in handling the medium, with increasingly fanciful ideas and attractive and natural contexts for virtuoso display.