My pen is at the bottom of a page, Which being finish'd, here the story ends; 'Tis to be wish'd it had been sooner done, But stories somehow lengthen when begun.
No sooner did the H.D. phenomenon take off than opera traditionalists started worrying that the technology would distort musical values.
Similarly, Carl Icahn and his financial advisers at Lazard this week unveiled their scheme to revive Time Warner, a media conglomerate that would sooner have nothing to do with them (see article).
Many trainers, after all, will send a horse downhill only once and would sooner wait for Epsom to do so.
Aides say he would sooner go into opposition than do such a deal.In this section Will these modest proposals provoke mayhem down on the farm?
"It's all about making adjustments," Brown said, "and obviously, I would have rather done it sooner".
If it did, Texas and Arizona would, sooner or later, go the way of New Mexico and California.
Whoever won the election would sooner or later have to slash the deficit.The new government decided to do it sooner.
(Respiratory physician) "I would sooner see someone that knows a little bit more because [GP] doesn't specialise in asthma.
Neither one of you knows a thing about engines or looms — and even if you did, you'd sooner pay huge import taxes than do business with that shady character.
