The new project is a refinement of an earlier idea.

This was agreed at an earlier meeting.

The story isn't in earlier editions of the papers.

Earlier reports of gunshots have not been confirmed.

a letter which he had written at an earlier date

The match has been moved to an earlier time.

I ought to get up earlier.

I can't come any earlier.

She left earlier than us.

Many years earlier, Grundy had given The Beatles their first television break.

I interviewed her earlier, and this is what she said.

Here's one I made earlier.

I saw him earlier.

political reforms announced earlier this year

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