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Usage examples of earlier.

I heard screams that can only be heard and not described, but they might have been from earlier sections of the nightmare.

As I remarked earlier, Harlan is in better condition than before his collapse.

Well, Ken decided, not until Chaminade had compensated the colonists-in minor but vital ways -- for his earlier condescension.

It was a little earlier than was decent to make a comunit call, but she remembered that Dalkey worked first shift.

Varian, still numbed by the earlier incident, gradually woke up to the fact that each of the new species must have had some common ancestor before evolutionary differences developed to put them into a sub-grouping.

In an earlier time, when people were still struggling to a civilized level that spurned the eating of animal flesh.

I wish I had pried you out of the lab much earlier," said Varian so emphatically that Trizein was mollified.

But it was also obvious to Rianav that Aygar had said nothing, at least to the woman and the old man, about the earlier encounter.

The earlier squall had departed and in misty sky she could see the golden fliers on their daily rounds, fish nets trailing from their feet.

Surprisingly, the data on that earlier effort was unavailable even to the participants on the panel.

If we'd jumped to this system only a little earlier or a little later, we wouldn't have been in the storm's path.

A senior weapons officer could give such advice, but under all the circumstances, it meant taking sides in the earlier argument: something Arly had refused to do.

Figures that she'd skimmed over earlier came back to her now: reaction equilibrium constants, rates of algal growth.

In the touch of his strong hands, she sensed that his earlier contempt for her had lessened.

And he had that to offer her, more than enough to get her forgiveness for that earlier misunderstanding.