Sentence examples for set much earlier from inspiring English sources

But her path into writing had been set much earlier.

The tone had been set much earlier, when the Lakers closed the first half on a Bryant-fueled 21-7 run.

The stage for Cronulla had actually been set much earlier, in the lead up to the 2001 Federal election.

Alfred Hitchcock set much of his 1955 film "To Catch a Thief"—about a reformed cat burglar played by Cary Grant in the Carlton.

Spielberg set much of his 1993 film Schindler's List amid Podgorze's forgotten remnants: fragments of the ghetto wall, Tadeusz Pankiewicz's pharmacy, and the Schindler factory itself.

"The bar has been set much higher for the next six months," said Arnold H. Aronson, the managing director of retail strategies at Kurt Salmon Associates, a consulting firm.

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth in 1921 and set much of her debut novel, "Strangers on a Train" (1950), in the state; Jim Thompson spent his high school years in Fort Worth in the 1920s and explored the rotting underbelly of small-town Texas in books like "Pop.

Proportionately the decline set in much earlier: in 1876 the city of Paris had 60 percent of the population of what was to become the Île-de-France région; in 1921, 51 percent; in 1954, 39 percent; and in 2008, 19 percent.

Last month, the government said that taxpayers had declared assets held abroad worth 87.7 billion euros, or $117 billion, equivalent to 9 percent of the country's gross domestic product, in line with legislation passed last year that set much more stringent rules on the disclosure of overseas assets.

Mr. Kaufman sets much of the film's second half at Joel's apartment, where the technicians Stan (Mark Ruffalo and Patrickk (Elijah Wood) are giving Joel's mind a Clem-bake, eliminating all traces of her.

Hartnell went on to create both the Queen's wedding dress in 1947, and coronation gown in 1953, both setting much-copied fashions for anyone who could afford the fabrics or get hold of the coupons.