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Example sentences for "years earlier"

  • Just as 40 years earlier Mrs. Hood and her brothers had been left in my charge on the death of their mother, so once again a dying mother begged me to accept the guardianship of her three orphan children.

  • London under the municipal guidance of the County Council was very different from the London I had visited 29 years earlier.

  • He was in fact a later and greater Kudur-Na-hangti, like the early conqueror of that name who founded the first Elamite empire some 1800 years earlier.

  • That is how he comes to know of the Castle at Elsinore (finished about a score of years earlier), though he does not mention the name of Kronborg.

  • Sir John Davis describes this shifting as going on in Ireland in his day, and Cæsar describes it as going on in Germany 1,700 years earlier.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "years earlier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another section; appointed colonel; constitutional reform; crumb them; direct attention; generally accepted; her work; marked varieties; never used; taking leave; tis but; view from; wheat raising; would fight; years afterward; years afterwards; years ago; years earlier; years from; years gone; years old; years past; years previously; years since; years went; young women