Sentence examples for one generation earlier from inspiring English sources
The parent herself has a sibling, both of whom are descended from the reader's grandparent; if this tree had been drawn one generation earlier, the grandparent would have been labeled as parent, and the aunt and parent would have been labeled as siblings.
Re "Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012: A Conjurer of Luminous Worlds, Both Beautiful and Terrifying," by Margalit Fox (obituary, front page, May 9): Maurice Sendak was one of the first writers in the juvenile category to trust children and their parents enough to address themes that might have frightened adults just one generation earlier.
His was the same message that had echoed here one October afternoon a generation earlier, and for many generations before that, too, and it showed just how little had changed here after all.
But as early as one generation later, sexual selection may offer females a much greater benefit.
Myotonic dystrophy (DM; also known as dystrophia myotonica), the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults, is a progressively disabling disease that is inherited in an autosomal dominant manner, with anticipation (more severe phenotype and earlier onset from one generation to the next) and variable expressivity (symptoms vary among individuals) (Harper, 2001).
The species has one generation per year, with reproduction occurring between early June and mid-August.
WSM optimizes for becoming inbred in one generation, but it might be more advantageous in the early MAI generations to select for animals whose probability to become inbred in two or more generations is maximized.
If, in earlier times, farming was a trade passed down from one generation to another, the farmers of tomorrow are coming well equipped with digital knowledge and skills.
("One generation pure, the next good for nothing," a parent -- naturally -- observes early in her first novel).
Dickens had been here a generation earlier.
