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The phrase 'some time earlier' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a specific (but unspecified) time before the present or another specified point in time. For example: "I read about this same issue some time earlier, but I didn't pay much attention to it until now."
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By contrast, Boris knew he wasn't coming back in 2016 - some would say he mentally checked out some time earlier - and left the cupboard pretty bare.
The archipelago was visited by the Spanish navigator Luis Vaez de Torres in 1606, but it is believed that Chinese and Malay sailors may have visited the archipelago some time earlier.
But Porter had turned her back on her rural roots some time earlier.
Many would say that that point had arrived some time earlier.
Some time earlier I'd been angrily admonished by a resident for not wiping their bottom correctly.
I named her London, after the city where I had studied some time earlier.
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I happened to spend some time earlier this month at Walter Reed, the big Army hospital in Washington.
When National Power, an electricity giant whose pension fund has racked up a large surplus, tried to take a funding holiday (ie, to stop paying into the fund for some time) earlier this year, the courts declared this unlawful.The case for money-purchase pensions rests on more than shareholder value.
"I have some time today.
You were told some time today, clearly.
Action is expected some time this summer.
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