Sentence examples for likely earlier from inspiring English sources

The contemporary mascots, certainly since the 1980s and likely earlier, are under the constant supervision of the Mascot Corporal and not allowed to freely roam about the cadet's quarters.

Surprisingly rapidly, the population rebounded to 'a great many land tortoise all over the place' by 1929 (Stoddart et al. 1979), and all the way back up to likely earlier levels by the late 1960s, when an estimated 120 000–140 000 tortoises once again dominated Aldabra's ecosystem (Cheke and Bour 2014).

The site was discovered by Europeans in the 1600s, though it was likely earlier explored by aboriginals.

But moving the May Day bank holiday would be a big blow to that independent spirit, not least because many of the things we like to do just can't be done in bad weather, which is more likely earlier or later in the year.

still waiting — Abas Aslani (@abasinfo) 14 Jun 13 As the night wore on and state television failed to deliver any definitive news, Iranian expatriate journalists began to discuss the possibility that a scenario considered likely earlier in the evening, that no candidate would win the 50 percent of the vote necessary to score an outright victory in the first round, could yet materialize.

The older the plant, the less physical capacity for earlier initial adoption and likely earlier decertification.

Is it less likely today that problems like hers would go unnoticed?

A détente did not appear likely earlier this year.

Two recent court decisions gave environmental groups powerful new ammunition, and they threatened to sue to block the new plant when it seemed likely earlier this year that a state board would approve it.

That is likely early next year.

More such oral dissents are likely next week.