Example sentences of "earlier when " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plight of an Argentinian clerk , Perico Rodriguez , imprisoned and tortured because of his criticisms of the military government , was brought to Amnesty 's attention by an English couple who had previously befriended Rodriguez two years earlier when they were hitch-hiking across Argentina . |
| 2 | It had been given particular poetic stimulation a few months earlier when , at 15 , and musing in a second-hand bookshop in the city , he had come across a book of poetry by the Spanish poet , Federico Garçia Lorca , a book he has carried with him ever since , as Manzano records . |
| 3 | The German had intended to ride his Olympic gold medal partner , Walzerkoenig , on Saturday night until a few hours earlier when it was discovered that the horse 's off-foreleg was inexplicably swollen . |
| 4 | John Alderson made a case for the reintroduction of community policing in 1982 ( Alderson 1982 , also see 1979 ) , but its advantages were recognized much earlier when the House of Commons Select Committee on Race Relations examined relations between the police and ethnic minorities in 1972 , and in 1976 a report from the National Police College placed a central emphasis upon it ( Pope 1976 ) . |
| 5 | The driver of the same express was killed a year earlier when his locomotive careered into the rear of a stationary train from Basingstoke which had stopped to report a signals fault . |
| 6 | Mine had been a decade earlier when Marcel Marceau removed my hands from behind my back ; hands , which at that period did n't resemble hands at all , but strawberry coloured boxing gloves . |
| 7 | A little earlier when they 'd listened to the Army vehicle 's wireless her hearing had been so acute that every syllable spoken sounded as if it were being shouted directly into her ear . |
| 8 | It was probably at that time that Zborowski took Modigliani to visit Anders Osterlind , a Swedish painter whom Modi had met in Paris years earlier when they visited the Cézanne retrospective together and almost cried with excitement . |
| 9 | In front of his nose dangles a hexagonal rubber handle suspended from a chain , installed a year or two earlier when the University removed all automatic flushing systems from its men 's cloakrooms as an economy measure . |
| 10 | He chose as his novel substances the class of compounds on which he had worked 20 years earlier when he was a Ph.D . |
| 11 | Another dramatic instance of historical déjà vu came during the miners ' strike , when it was reported that an attack had been made on the police station in Malby , South Yorkshire , scene of an anti-police riot a century earlier when the ‘ new police ’ first arrived there . |
| 12 | As explained earlier when describing the model of living and the model for nursing , the 12 ALs are interrelated ; so too the body systems as categorised by the human biologists are interrelated and it is only for the purposes of description and discussion that they are dealt with separately . |
| 13 | I explained that I 'd found someone to substitute for me — one of the Carter boys was looking for holiday work — but he kept making objections about unqualified staff , mentioning a notorious case a few years earlier when one malcontent teacher wreaked his revenge by teaching a group of teenage Italians that the English greet each other in the street with the phrase ‘ Piss off , wanker . ’ |
| 14 | Jane Dalgliesh had bought Larksoken Mill five years earlier when she had moved from her previous home on the Suffolk coast . |
| 15 | The bald star had been left in tears earlier when fans jeered her for ripping up a picture of the Pope on a US chat show . |
| 16 | Police are connecting the rape with an incident 90 minutes earlier when a 25-year-old woman was attacked half a mile away at Burway on the edge of Ludlow . |
| 17 | The auditors had carried out a specific investigation of the Gimco bills and with regard to recoverability , they had no more than an assurance from Gimco , an Abu Dhabi entity , that the bills would be honoured ‘ within three to four months or earlier when able ’ and an unsupported statement by G that he believed Gimco would pay . |
| 18 | The historian Kirkpatrick was recalling an incident fourteen years earlier when he included the above in his 1751 treatise ‘ Reflections on the Causes that may retard Putrefaction of dead Bodies ’ . |
| 19 | They had first met fifteen years earlier when a small cadre of SAS men , led by D'Arcy , had visited the Mont Louis Commando Training School close to Andorra for an exchange visit . |
| 20 | Bhutto was choked by tear gas earlier when police fired canisters directly at her open-top jeep . |
| 21 | I could not present them , at fifty-five and sixty , with the same situation they had had to face twenty years earlier when my mother had come home from the teacher 's training college where she was a lecturer in medieval history , given birth to me , and died of it . |
| 22 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 23 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 24 | Gender difference indicates that people will be admitted to care at a point when for older women they are likely to be frail and dependent , whereas men are admitted earlier when they are fitter , and may live longer in a home , settling more comfortably ( Willcocks , 1986 , p. 151 ) . |
| 25 | The passengers felt bad enough earlier when they were hit by a regional rail fare rise of more than five per cent . |
| 26 | Rock'n'roll was born in a London office two months earlier when the first issue of the NME was ‘ put to bed ’ . |
| 27 | Indeed , the basic British attitude had been summed up admirably by Churchill himself many years earlier when he wrote , in an American periodical in 1930 , ‘ We see nothing but good and hope in a richer , freer , more contented European commonalty . |
| 28 | Their numbers in further and higher education colleges in the UK alone were estimated in 1985 to be more than 55,000 , representing remarkable progress even by comparison with the situation 15 years earlier when none but a few pioneering colleges made any special effort to accommodate students with disabilities or learning difficulties . |
| 29 | The need for a wider focus had been signalled five years earlier when the merger of the Howard Association and the prison Reform League resulted in the establishment of the Howard League for Penal Reform . |
| 30 | Thus , prices begin adjusting earlier when insiders trade on their information . |