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Simple sentences
You must get up a little earlier.
One minute earlier, and they could have caught the bus.
My mother gets up earlier than I.
For some reason the microphone didn't work earlier.
We met earlier.
Tom apologized for not coming earlier.
I was lying earlier.
We had lunch earlier than usual today.
Why didn't you tell Tom earlier?
I should go to bed earlier.
I should have gone to bed earlier.
I should've gone to bed earlier.
I must learn to go to bed earlier.
Will we see each other earlier?
It is regrettable that you did not start earlier.
You should have come 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.
I should have left earlier.
I should have come earlier.
You should have come a little earlier.
Movie subtitles
By 1900, if not earlier, the Westerners had effectively subjugated the Resterners.
I found some deer trails I scouted earlier.
Earlier, we've reached to our decision, but why are you pretending to discuss?
Are you thinking about that woman earlier?
Earlier. when was it, you said?
Good, as for what that woman said earlier, forget it.
Earlier, when I saw that woman I remembered something.
The things you said earlier, was that true?
Perhaps they drank the champagne earlier, celebrating poll results, but had an argument.
I was with his family earlier today and they said he may even be allowed home this week.
Yeah, I saw her earlier this morning.
All we have to do is check in separately and then we just board the flight a few minutes earlier.
Although it seems somewhat a relapse into the style of his earlier Keystones it was the most popular film in the whole series of twelve.
Mr. Yquem has had to close the office a little earlier today, Madam.
We hadn't come to Algeria for this, but to unite the East and the West like we'd sworn to do a few months earlier in Paris.
He is the success story I alluded to earlier.
Earlier, humans who discovered our power reacted in one of two ways.
Yes. All of the launch plans she mentioned were announced earlier. All of the rocket launches were recorded and completely documented by NORAD.
Catalina, that undetermined element you were mentioning earlier.
Days went by. but it could not have been predicted. that the law would arrive earlier. than in a few weeks.
I heard you two earlier.
I'm still upset about earlier.
Mr. Barreau, you testified earlier that as cashier at the Folies Montmartre, on the night of the crime, you brought the victim 20,000 f.
Yes, sir, 2:30, maybe a bit earlier.
Yvette Delys then heads back towards her dressing room. She walks down the same dark hallways to her brightly lit dressing room, where she'd left the money, the 15,000 f we talked about earlier, foolishly left on her vanity.
It couldn't have been earlier?
No, it wasn't earlier because.
We got here with a lot difficulties. Later when it's time to go to the boulevard to film the video of unity, come over an hour earlier.
I-I WAS DOING SOME WORK EARLIER WITH KAREN, AND JUST WONDERING IF I COULD TALK TO HER FOR A FEW MINUTES.
Clearly, you didn't see me dunking on Jimmy earlier.
It's my understanding a Miss Natalie Sykes - lived across the hall from you earlier this year.
But didn't I get to sit up front earlier?
I beg your pardon, sir, but you would make us very happy. if you'd set an earlier date for our wedding.
We had long rains earlier, in Takasaki.
Then drum will join drum. flag will join flag. group will join group, Gau to Gau. and after that, this earlier divided people. will follow these sacred columns of the Nation.
Why didn't it start raining earlier?
Dancer. we almost ran into each other earlier this evening.
You'll bust in on them a half an hour earlier, that's all.
News and current affairs
HONG KONG - A recent trip to Berlin brought back memories of an earlier visit in the summer of 1967, when I was a poor student who marveled at the Wall that would divide and devastate an entire society for another two decades.
Yet at Cancun, Mexico earlier this summer, it refused to open its markets even to exports from struggling African economies.
By contrast, the military had earlier publicly criticized AKP initiatives on Cyprus.
First, they acknowledged -- without ever quite admitting it -- that their earlier attempts to reduce developing-country debt had failed.
Earlier this year, they staged partial, and tightly regulated municipal elections, with no independent opinion permitted to influence when and how the ballots were held.
A few years earlier, as America rushed to lock up ever more of its population for ever-pettier offenses, the absolute size of its incarcerated population surpassed that of China - despite China's population being more than four times that of America.
I argued and voted against these new nuclear initiatives in the US Senate earlier this year.
North Korea's fragility is suggested by the fact that even such an important political event as the Worker's Party conference, held for the first time in three decades, was abruptly postponed earlier in September.
The attack on the South Korean naval ship Cheonan earlier this year may be a grim sign of things to come.
Earlier this year, the government suspended publication of the newspaper Bing Dian Weekly, provoking unprecedented open protest, which received extensive media coverage worldwide.
Abdullah, perhaps earlier than most others, understood that some code of restraint was needed if the entire region was not to descend into a war of all against all.
But that alienation already largely ended earlier this year, when the Bush administration realized that allies are good to have and that Germany is an important one.
LONDON - Earlier this week, a group of almost 100 prominent Europeans delivered an open letter to the leaders of all 17 eurozone countries.
The new negotiations will have one advantage over the earlier efforts, because governments now understand the need for a portfolio of adaptation, mitigation, and research efforts.
After all, desertification and deforestation helped fuel the rise, two decades earlier, of the Maoist guerilla group Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) in Peru.
The new religious militants, fighting in the name of their particular and peculiar God, seem as fanaticized as the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists of earlier decades.
Since its introduction, the euro has fallen further from its peak then even the Nasdaq in the high-tech sell-off of earlier this year.
All of this is undeniable, and yet the most important change in Argentina - one that occurred a few years earlier - went unnoticed.
Nevertheless, the effort to preempt American strategy clearly failed, as new UN sanctions were implemented earlier this month.
The most recent precedent was the bipartisan agreement reached earlier this year on another fiscal issue that threatened to disrupt the normal functioning of government: the absence of a formally approved budget for this year.
PARIS: Brazil's currency devaluation earlier this year, and its difficulties since in stabilizing the real as well as its stock market, have demonstrated the importance, if any new proof was needed, of financial markets and their volatile mood swings.
Or we were invited to come at an earlier hour in the hope that we would leave before the official representatives arrived, which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't.
Perhaps the best chance to address the problem at an earlier stage was immediately after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.
We therefore expect a shift toward earlier reproduction, because the costs previously associated with doing so have disappeared - exactly what we found in Framingham.