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early English

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What does early mean?
Definitions in simple English

early

If something is early, it happens in the first part of a time period. He didn't like going to the early classes.

early

During the first part of a time period. She got up early in the morning.

early

at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time early morning an early warning early diagnosis an early death took early retirement an early spring early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties being or occurring at an early stage of development in an early stage early forms of life early man an early computer (= early on) during an early stage early on in her career (= former, other) belonging to the distant past the early inhabitants of Europe former generations in other times (= ahead of time) before the usual time or the time expected she graduated early the house was completed ahead of time very young at an early age of an early stage in the development of a language or literature the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C. Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700 (= betimes) in good time he awoke betimes that morning expected in the near future look for an early end to the negotiations

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Simple sentences

Most people have great disinclinations to get out of bed early, even if they have to.
The early bird catches the worm.
You need not have come here so early.
You don't get up as early as your sister.
It is too early to get up.
Tom came home early yesterday.
You need not have got up so early.
We need not have eaten breakfast so early.
You don't have to get up so early.
We had an early lunch at school.
We left home early in the morning.
My grandfather gets up early.
My mother always gets up early in the morning.
What did you come here so early for?
I find it hard to get up early on cold mornings.
As a rule, the inhabitants of warm countries keep early hours.
We went to the theater early, so we could be sure that everyone could get a seat.
We had an early lunch and set out at 12:30.
How early do I have to make a reservation to qualify for the discount?
We got an early start.
You needn't have hurried; you've arrived too early.
As a rule, she is an early riser.
We agreed to start early.
I got up early in order to catch the first train.

Movie subtitles

The first cases appeared in early summer. 2 00:00:55,740 -- 00:00:58,410 For months the virus tried to destroy the population.
Built by the Ming dynasty in the early 1 5th century, these awe-inspiring buildings are a reminder of the last time China was a global leader.
The ravages of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that had devastated Europe in the early 1 4th century, had reduced the city's population to around 40,000, less than a 20th the size of Nanjing's.
And that explains why Zheng He, the personification of early Chinese expansionism, for so long forgotten, is a hero in today's newly gIobaIised China.
I get up early, and as soon as I open the door, I practically ran into this spear that's stuck in the ground.
My dress is done early, and I brought champagne!
Did Josh not tell you we were coming early?
You're back early.
He wanted to party all night, but I had to be up early.
Be a shame if I went through all the effort of getting you out of prison early just to kill everyone who means something to you.
You burned down a restaurant owned by Ziggy Woijchik and his psycho son, and you not only live, but you get out of prison early?
We could finish morning surgery half an hour early -- we've very few appointments in the book.
Most of their mothers took Distaval or other medicines containing thalidomide during the very early weeks of pregnancy.
In case anyone is unaware, Nurse Franklin has been summoned to her secondment at St Cuthbert's three days early.
And one of those questions caught his attention early on: the properties of the ensemble of stars we see in the sky, the Milky Way Galaxy.
A big debate took place in the early 1920s.
Early in 1944 something happened that we found very special.
I didn't get to see her this morning, 'cause she left early for the tech run.
And you had to get up early for work.
It was not until dawn's early light that the skipper saw the sight he was longing for.
We left New York drunk and early on the morning of February 2.
One of the early settlers?
Thorpe and Lopez come in during the night, and early morning, sent a wagon out for the meat.
Early morning hours.
I don't like to get up so early in the morning.
Well, you'll have to get up pretty early in the morning to steal from me.
Rebecca, I can't come early.
And you had to get up early for work. And by the time I got up, you were gone.
Believe me, you gotta get up early if you wanna get out of bed.
Next spring I'm gonna get some early bloomers.
If you feel better we'll get started early in the morning.
How come this early morning visit?
Your consent to our early marriage.
We're early.
Our train leaves early tomorrow morning.
Hey, I'll be there early, and I'll stay late.
I want to get out to the club early tomorrow.

News and current affairs

One successful gold investor recently explained to me that stock prices languished for a more than a decade before the Dow Jones index crossed the 1,000 mark in the early 1980's.
But it is better to begin the ethical discussion too early than too late.
It was a Conservative government that first applied for membership in the early 1960's.
But any attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule will create such a political mess that it is not absurd to fear that Ukraine could follow Belarus and the Balkans of the early 1990's into outright dictatorship and chaos.
Their financial trust index, based on a large-scale survey of financial decision-makers in American households, did show a sharp fall in trust in late 2008 and early 2009, following the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Only when markets were deregulated and liberalized from the early 1970's onwards did finance once again leap ahead.
These companies are uniquely placed to move new ideas and technologies into early-stage demonstration projects, thereby accelerating global learning cycles.
It was during Yitzhak Rabin's government in the early 1990's that Israel and Iran entered into open conflict, owing to the changing strategic environment after America's victory in the first Gulf War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Greenspan also pleads guilty to a mistake in early 2001.
In the early nineteenth century, the friezes and sculptures were removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin, Britain's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1799 to 1803.
But let's back up historically, to the founding of what we might call modern conservatism in early nineteenth-century Britain and France.
The main thrust of early conservatism was root-and-branch opposition to every form of social insurance: make the poor richer, and they would become more fertile.
They stopped the decline in the spring and early summer of this year, bringing the recession to what one hopes is more than a temporary halt.
In the early postwar decades, foreign competition exerted virtually no pressure on the economy, owing to the isolation of America's continental market from the devastation of WWII.
LONDON - Public trust in financial institutions, and in the authorities that are supposed to regulate them, was an early casualty of the financial crisis.
And can Aung San Suu Kyi, the heroic opposition leader, and Thein Sein, Burma's new president, engineer a political transition as skillfully and peacefully as Mandela and de Klerk did for South Africa in the early 1990's?
During the early stages of the crisis, Germany, which had bet heavily on Russia's modernization, was averse to taking any consequential action.
On balance, though, early evidence suggests that this will not be an era of smooth multilateralism or American leadership.
We are taught early on in our lives that the end cannot justify the means.
In early February, the United Nations Environment Program will convene some of the world's leading economists at the UN's headquarters in New York.
The ascendency of the mandarins is a legacy of Japan's unique historical development dating back to its early modern period.
In the early 1990's, Sweden suffered a huge recession precipitated by a housing bubble and a banking crisis.
After the various revolutions in the early decades of the twentieth century, Confucianism was replaced by a Chinese version of Communism.
Members of evangelical churches associate their beliefs with the rugged individualism of the early pioneers.
The country that used to be the symbol of capitalist stability and strength now shows frightening similarities to the developing countries that suffered from the world debt crisis in the early 1980's.
After the Republican convention, polls showed McCain ahead in early September, but after the financial meltdown, Obama took the lead.
It is certainly too early to declare a new Progressive Era in America.

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