English example sentences with "earlier"

Learn how to use earlier in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

It is regrettable that you did not start earlier.

You should have come earlier.

You should have come a little earlier.

You must get up a little earlier.

What prevented you from coming earlier?

You should have done it earlier. It cannot be helped now.

The meeting ended earlier than usual.

It will get dark earlier this evening, as it is raining.

You are to get up earlier.

Had I arrived earlier, I could have seen Kelly.

I should have left earlier.

We should have set off earlier.

I ought to have made a hotel reservation earlier.

You ought to have come here earlier.

I should have come earlier.

You'd not have been in the rush hour if you had left home earlier.

Had you come a little earlier, you could have met her.

Had they left a little earlier, they would have avoided the traffic jam.

If I had left a little earlier, I would have caught the last train.

If you had left a little earlier, you would have avoided the heavy traffic.

If you had left home a little earlier you would have been in time.

If only I had left home five minutes earlier.

One minute earlier, and they could have caught the bus.

One minute earlier, and we could have seen the Queen.

Why didn't you tell us about this earlier? We'd have been able to do something about it.

You should've said so earlier.

In those days, I went to bed earlier.

The music evokes memories of an earlier time.

John had awoken much earlier than usual.

I will come earlier next time.

These flowers bloom earlier than others do.

This design resembles his earlier work.

You ought to have come to my wedding reception earlier.

I should have told you everything earlier.

If you had left earlier, you would have caught the train.

You should have left half an hour earlier.

If you had come only two minutes earlier, you could have caught the bus.

An earlier sense of a word need not be its present basic sense.

This morning I got up an hour earlier than usual.

The cherry blossoms will come out earlier than usual.

I've been coming to work one train earlier lately.

I should have gone to bed earlier last night.

I got up earlier than usual so that I might catch the first train.

Do you mind our leaving a little earlier?

We ought to have talked it over much earlier.

My mother gets up earlier than I.

I went to bed a little earlier than usual.

I got up earlier than usual.

I wanted to get up earlier than Mother.

Because I had a bad cold, I went to bed earlier than usual.

I was able to finish the work earlier than I had expected.

I left earlier than my sister.

I missed the train. I should have come earlier.

Should we get up earlier?

Would you mind coming earlier next time?

Being tired, as I was, I went to bed earlier than usual.

Earlier in his life, he ran a hotel.

The job-seeking season is starting earlier each year and it's the mass media that are causing that trend by moving up their job interview schedule.

You ran into him earlier, didn't you?

The sun rises earlier in summer than in winter.

The sun sets earlier in winter.

If he had known, he might have come earlier.

Get up fifteen minutes earlier in the morning.

My brother always gets up earlier than I.

Having a cracking headache, I went to bed earlier than usual.

Japan's gold and foreign exchange reserves stood at $68.9 billion at the end of 1998, down from $77.0 billion a year earlier.

I advised him to start earlier.

Thanks to his advice, we could finish it earlier than we had expected.

He got up earlier than usual.

He arrived earlier than usual.

Tired from the hard work, he went to bed earlier than usual.

He comes to school earlier than any other student in the class.

He compelled us to come earlier.

He came a little earlier than he used to.

Exhausted from a day's work, he went to bed much earlier than usual.

He got up earlier than usual this morning.

He came home earlier than I expected.

Since he was tired, he turned in earlier than usual.

They had started earlier than we had.

They had started earlier than us.

Since they were tired, they turned in earlier than usual.

She wished she had been born twenty years earlier.

She suggested that we should start earlier.

Being tired, he went to bed earlier than usual.

We're deeply sorry for the inappropriate remark earlier.

Mother gets up earlier than anybody else in my family.

Winter comes earlier in North Europe.

Is it possible for you to come to the office an hour earlier than usual tomorrow?

But for the storm, I would have arrived earlier.

If it had not been for the storm, I would have arrived earlier.

For some reason the microphone didn't work earlier.

A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Senator McCain. Senator McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.

His mother got up much earlier than usual and started cooking as early as 8am.

Please forgive me for not having written to you earlier.

Why didn't you say so earlier?

Tomorrow I must leave earlier.

Next time I'll come earlier.

Will we see each other earlier?

Girls are losing their virginity earlier and earlier.

Girls are losing their virginity earlier and earlier.

He sent his luggage earlier.

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