How To Use Sooner In A Sentence
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Open pores are more affected by rubbing or abrasion, causing these fabrics to wear out sooner.
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No sooner had he his feet under the table, though, than he was being ballyragged at county board meetings by suits who knew better than he who should be playing.
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Poor female alpacas are pregnant for nearly 12 months and have no sooner had a baby, known as a cria, than they are keen to breed again.
IcBirmingham
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'Sooner or later the young gadabouts will settle down to a more sane level of sartorial elegance.
Times, Sunday Times
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As to Morgan: the sooner the old bumbler is put out his own (and Wales's) misery, the better.
Cheryl Gillan Shines on Question Time
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But if it is defense that lights your fire, the Sooners always had the spark.
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This was sufficient to prove that he was a non-praedial, and of course entitled to liberty two years sooner than he would have been as a praedial.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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He went a stage further and added: 'The sooner you are deported from this country the better.
The Sun
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Most vets agree spaying and neutering should be done not sooner than 6 months of age.
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No sooner had a bowl of steaming spaghetti vongole been placed in front of me than Matt, in a moment of open-armed expansiveness while trying to press home a point, had knocked the entire thing into my lap.
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No sooner does he draw a grand comparison than he retracts or qualifies it.
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Fucking rummy is beyond belief, the sooner he dies the better for the world and the better for the ruination of hell.
Think Progress » Rumsfeld: War Critics Being Manipulated By Zarqawi and Bin Laden’s ‘Media Committees’
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However, no sooner had the parliament spoken than there were attempts to unsay its words.
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The grinning, slithering jackanapes is reportedly going to concentrate his sales pitch on the U.S., suspecting that we Brits would sooner chew our tongues than buy his book when it is published on Sept. 13.
Boycott Blair's Book!
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But, sooner or later the overhang of monetary liabilities would undermine confidence in the key currency.
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No sooner the rains began, traffic crawled, trees fell, power tripped and Bangaloreans waded home with a sense of déjà vu.
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Sooner or later,the time comes when we all must become responsible adults,and learn to give up what we want,so we can choose to do what is right.Of course,a life time of responsibility isn'e always easy,and as the years go on,it's a burden that can become too heavy for some to bear.But still we try to do what is best,what is good.Not only for ourselves,but for those we love.Yes,sooner or later we must all become responsible adults.No one knows this better than the young.
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For two days after the Sooners got eliminated from the NCAA tournament on the brink of the Final Four, Griffin was too disappointed to think about the NBA.
Oklahoma's Griffin leads group of players entering NBA draft
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After all, every previous alliance, coalition, entente, empire, community, or monetary union of European states has collapsed sooner or later.
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In the city the snow had long lost its Persil whiteness, and seemed bruised by the dirt and smog that seeps into everything here sooner or later.
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Experience teaches us that if it happens in the United States, it will happen here, sooner rather than later.
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The real choice is between becoming a fully fledged United States of Europe, or remaining little more than a modern-day Holy Roman Empire, a gimcrack hodgepodge of "variable geometry" that will sooner or later fall apart.
The End of the Euro
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Sooner or later,the time comes when we all must become responsible adults,and learn to give up what we want,so we can choose to do what is right.Of course,a life time of responsibility isn'e always easy,and as the years go on,it's a burden that can become too heavy for some to bear.But still we try to do what is best,what is good.Not only for ourselves,but for those we love.Yes,sooner or later we must all become responsible adults.No one knows this better than the young.
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The sooner the morning after pill is taken after sex the greater its efficacy.
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No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere than it exercises, even unintentionally, an insupportable tyranny.
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He'd wasted valuable years in failing to come here sooner, and learning this essential fact about himself: that he was no desperado at all.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot.
Finnegans Wake
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As they start researching, the details of the picture come together for the reader, who wonders why the heck they don't get it a lot sooner and run away to Australia (as if that might make their lives any safer -- Max has a _lot_ of money and no ethics at all).
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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You can heave that rock to the top of the slope, but unless you make a constant effort to restrain it, sooner or later it will come rolling down again.
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The outcome for a particular planetary system might be wildly different if the nebular gas is expelled sooner or later than in our system.
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With Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce in crisis -- yes, Roger really did do nothing about the impending loss of Lucky Strike and the ever odious Lee Garner Jr. really did let word seep out sooner than his promised 30 days -- Peggy performs well by giving her previously scheduled pitch on a campaign for one of Playtex's female products.
William Bradley: Mad Men : Breach One "Chinese Wall" and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later
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It was too risky to stay any longer because sooner or later, someone was going to notice him acting strange.
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I'm making my second trip by the time she has it in the door, but no sooner has she set it down when she's off to the car again, yammering on about something that I can't quite make out.
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The sooner we quit fiddling with otiose sanctions against Iran, the sooner we can begin crafting containment and deterrence strategies that are actually effective.
Michael Hughes: Who Cares If Iran Goes Nuclear?
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Sooner or later, we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines and romance in the movies.
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This was bound to happen sooner or later.
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A drowning man will catch at a broken reed: the jeweller no sooner heard the sound of the word astrologer than he went up to Ahmed, told him what had happened, and said, "If you understand your art, you must be able to discover the king's ruby.
Arabian nights. English
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The classic example is in computing, where it seems that no sooner have users got used to particular products than upgrades are rushed out.
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Her investment paid dividends sooner than she might have guessed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Essentially, we'd sooner eat, or make a show of eating, unseasoned dog's giblets, than cause a scene.
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No sooner had he set eyes on Prospero's tender-hearted daughter than he fell in love with her.
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Such is Commerce, which shakes the cocoa-nut and bread-fruit tree in the remotest isle, and sooner or later dawns on the duskiest and most simple-minded savage.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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No sooner had one plane got a green than the next one was signalling its code letter.
Bomber
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No sooner, that is, does "etherial glory" seem glancingly posited on the phonemic run as
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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The blizzard winds had come in much sooner than they normally did and he and the maids had been stuck in the compound for three weeks.
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Thou takest all advantages against me; old scores are called over, every infirmity is animadverted upon, and no sooner is a false step taken than I am beaten for it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
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Yet it seems indeed, disregarding rare exceptions, that sooner or later a point is reached where arsphenamine treatment is unable to halt the fatal progression.
Julius Wagner-Jauregg - Nobel Lecture
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It's bound to happen sooner or later that a review you write will rile someone enough to write a scathing email.
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And the sooner we can kind of get those guideposts from our present administration, the better we will be able to form our work.
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We are at the bottom of a chalk-pit, Mr Charles," answered Tom, "the fellows have played us a somewhat scurvy trick, but I cannot but say that it was better than sending us over the cliff and breaking our necks; howsomdever, the sooner we get out of it the better as I'm wet to the skin, and would like to take a brisk walk homeward to get dry.
Washed Ashore The Tower of Stormount Bay
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To avoid their after taste during dessert, we might have refrained from eating them had we noticed them sooner.
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Why didn't we toilet-train him sooner - or later?
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I believe that sooner or later good must triumph over evil.
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Some fear that the crunch point could come sooner as a third of hospitals are overspending already.
Times, Sunday Times
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And a holidaying police chopper crew should have been recalled sooner.
The Sun
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It is the fact that even sooner, midterm congressional elections can have the effect of emasculating their legislative programs.
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I went clammy, cursing myself for not having escaped sooner.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Now, since I was going to have to tell him sooner or later in whose favour I was making the deed of gift, I decided to confess the truth there and then.
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No sooner were we in bed when there was an almighty thunderclap and the heavens opened up and of course it sounded very loud on the tin roof.
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In that case we should have motored sooner or later by the bleachery gate and past numerous company houses.
Working With the Working Woman
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He had no sooner got his wings than the Korean conflict broke out.
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Staggering home to the tent after nightfall he would have been sure, sooner or later, to fall into a dry shicer and break his neck, or into a wet one and be drowned.
Australia Felix
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And if they think they're suffering from any kind of asthmatic exacerbation, they need to see their doctor and aggressive treatments sooner rather than later.
Breaking News: CBS News
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One may sooner fall than rise.
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The sooner these negative old grumblers disappear the better.
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If he had smiled a moment sooner Hicks would have cracked his skull.
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Fourteen men a side is not rugby union, nor league, and certainly not cricket, and the sooner they learn that the better for the dignity of the game and future tourists.
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No sooner has a cease-fire been signed than it is broken, and Big Brother in either case exhorts the citizens, known as proles, to make ever greater sacrifices, especially their liberty.
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The shepherd, with his staff, now obliged them to move on; but no sooner did the fluter begin to play again, than his interested audience returned to him.
Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match
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St. Blaise will cure it sooner than tartarized antimony.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
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In Siena, Gissing worked on the Dickens study, and no sooner had he finished it, than he headed south to Naples.
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President Buchanan will be sooner converted than Napoleon; although I do not know, how the Heavenly Congress see this matter, because I am not in their congress but only a medium of messengers sent from that congress.
Secret Enemies of True Republicanism
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Besides, they say dough will be leavened sooner in the full, for then, though the leaven is scarce proportioned to the meal, yet it rarefies and leavens the whole lump.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Seldom had the King evinced more gaiety of heart than at this particular period, or appeared to derive greater amusement from the gossipry of the Court and the gallantries of the courtiers; and he no sooner ascertained that Mademoiselle d'Entragues had become the mistress of Bassompierre than he said laughingly to the Duc de Guise:
The Life of Marie de Medicis
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In late August and early September, old bucks will begin hoofing the ground clear, much sooner than younger, smaller animals do.
How to Hunt Trophy Bucks: Old Deer Require New Tactics
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An 'we'd vagged him sooner Ridmond might have taken th' tu av thim down tugither.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
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No sooner had I closed my notebook on it pending a future revision and expansion than the wind slewed round, gathered breath, and commenced to blow.
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Sooner than you realize, birds will start chirping and there will be greenery all around.
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Council housing lists were long and slow-moving, and some desperate families squatted in disused Army huts in the hope of qualifying for a council house sooner.
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But Rick, that would seem to me that some of those cost savings are going to come sooner rather than later, kind of lumpier maybe up front, if you've already implemented some of these workforce reductions.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
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The key to treatment is to catch it early: the sooner antibiotics are given the better.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sooner or later,the time comes when we all must become responsible adults,and learn to give up what we want,so we can choose to do what is right.Of course,a life time of responsibility isn'e always easy,and as the years go on,it's a burden that can become too heavy for some to bear.But still we try to do what is best,what is good.Not only for ourselves,but for those we love.Yes,sooner or later we must all become responsible adults.No one knows this better than the young.
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But as for chimney-sweeps, and collier-boys, and nailer lads, my sister has set good people to stop all that sort of thing; and very much obliged to her I am; for if she could only stop the cruel masters from ill-using poor children, I should grow handsome at least a thousand years sooner.
The Water Babies
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Cash terms freezes will reduce this, meaning that public sector expenditure can begin to rise (if that is what is wanted) sooner. stephen
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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We are sorry for not answering your letter sooner.
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No sooner had I recovered from the psychological trauma of last week's mantid attack than my pure blood was spilled again in broad daylight.
Scientist attacked by bloodthirsty tiger!
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Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.
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If you enter a room, sooner or later, to get to another room, you have to re-enter the hallway.
Small thought, big sentiment
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This means they are more likely to have serious illnesses diagnosed sooner.
The Sun
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Sooner or later, we explode with it — in the form of anger toward our spouse, who comes dilly-dallying in after a day of adult interaction, interaction with people WHO WILL LISTEN.
The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother
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But no sooner had the gaoler's feet touched the fairy ring, than he saw and heard like the rest, and he called lustily to the chaplain to come and stop the unhallowed measure.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales
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And, I hope, pass laws sooner rather than later to demilitarise the police; ban Tasers and rubber bullets; criminalise police and politician violence against free speech activities; demand prosecutions for financial fraud; compel the corporate books that unaccountably swallow billions in tax revenue to be audited; investigate torturers; bring home soldiers from corporate wars of choice – and rebuild society, this time from the grassroots up, accountably, lawfully and democratically.
How to Occupy the moral and political high ground | Naomi Wolf
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No sooner had the last drop of champagne been poured in Miami than other small-market teams began to wonder if they could duplicate the Marlins' success.
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We have a huge responsibility on our shoulders now and the sooner the loyalists are sorted out the better.
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I fully agree with you, though, that the unelected Eurocrats in Brussels need to be subject to democratic checks and controls sooner rather than later!
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May 30th, 2008 1: 03 pm ET maybe scott should have said something sooner but he also knows what happens to the peope who speakout againest this president. what does dole know that no one else does? he should just shut his trap and stay out of politics. he wasn't much of one to start with. the truth won't really come out until this tribe of misfits is out of the whitehouse. will make some interesting reading if someone really digs in to what really went on behind the doors of secertcy.
Dole to McClellan: You're a 'miserable creature'
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It simply occurred to me that the sooner you're married and bored with it, the sooner I'll have you in my bed," he answered caddishly.
Tender Rebel
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He had no sooner recovered from this than he underwent abdominal surgery for ileitis, and then at the very beginning of his second term in November of 1957, he suffered a stroke, and so again he seemed an extremely inappropriate president because of these three well-publicized illnesses.
The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House
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The rubbish could not be removed sooner because it was covered in snow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or perhaps those who would benefit most from Imran Khan's wise suggestions are the timid little satrap/'allies' of NATO who would sooner waste their wealth, consign their sons to foreign graves and provoke generations of revenge attacks than tell a ranting yankee general at the NATO meetings to depart and leave the rest of us and themalone.
Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan
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This will give a 25% speed boost to your Vindicator on the return flight home resulting in less damage and allows you to use your Vindicators again sooner.
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I no sooner cleared the tree line when I heard a deep guttural growl behind me.
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As Warren relayed, the homeowner was sophisticated enough to recognize that his interest rate would be doubled and his term lengthened so that he would in fact lose his home sooner and the lender would own his valuable property.
Veterans Today
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The sooner we can distance ourselves from these artificial things known as nations the better.
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Given the dearth of goals elsewhere in this misfiring midfield he could be promoted sooner than he thinks.
Times, Sunday Times
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No sooner do I lie him flat when, whoosh, he's on all fours again and crawling off at top speed.
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The sooner the other four homes are pensioned off, the better.
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The sooner you do that the sooner we can make a quick decision and hurry you on your way.
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But motorists and other travellers will consider it evident that the road squads, however hard they worked, were responding to the weather when they should have anticipated it sooner.
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Getting it in sooner is ideal, but the rainy season can be quirky and no one knows this better than the farmers.
Corn, beans and squash: the life cycle of the milpa
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So Oklahoma won the game, but the Sooners' quarterback lost his chance.
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I'd sooner be flat-bellied of hunger and be your woman, Tommy, than have a potlach every day and be Chief George's klooch. '
SIWASH
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It'll stabilize itself automatically soon - sooner perhaps than you think.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Still, there is that natural impatience about him which means he wants to be No 1 in the world sooner rather than later.
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But still, in the end most of the transplants have been rejected, and usually sooner rather than later.
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Nationalize the Banks yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Nationalize the Banks'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The sooner we nationalize the banks the sooner we can denationalize the ones that can survive.'
Nationalize the Banks
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The sooner we set off, the sooner we will arrive.
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Of course, in a sense, we all start from scratch in childhood, and children who start with a language like Spanish, where the spelling is almost perfectly phonetic, pick up reading much, much sooner than children who have to learn all the crazy rules and exceptions of English spelling.
Ghoti out of Water « Isegoria
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Sooner than such an inversion of social order, I would welcome even Turkish bondage; for surely utter ignorance is infinitely preferable to erudite unwomanliness.
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No sooner did the nearest brig open her fire, and that within short canister range, than the ship and her consort hauled in again on the southern flank of the battery, the smallest vessel leading, and feeling her way with the lead.
The Crater
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Niall Ferguson, no Europhile, recently wrote in these pages: "The real choice is between becoming a fully fledged United States of Europe … and a gimcrack hodgepodge … that will sooner or later fall apart.
In Defense of Europe
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Shooting an Indian from an and-bush is acting up to his own principles, and now we have what you call a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your conscience, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods.
The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
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No sooner were the arrests of Egmont and Horn known in Madrid, than Montigny was deprived of his liberty, and closely confined in the alcazar of
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
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No sooner had the thought passed through her mind when the familiar '79 Ford truck rumbled into the mouth of her driveway.
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Mark gave him a friendly clap on the shoulder, ‘ah, don't worry about it, you'll find out sooner or later right?’
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But Kidd soon reassured him over sundry cups of bombo, protesting with many oaths that 'his soul should fry in hell' sooner than that he should hurt a hair of one of Culliford's crew; and, as a proof of good will, presented him with two guns and an anchor.
The Pirates of Malabar, and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago
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They would sooner have the bulk than the litheness and agility.
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No sooner had the flow of liquor from Rum Row in the Northeast been stanched than it began to gush in unprecedented quantities through the sluiceway that was Detroit, where an overmatched prosecutor said, “The greatest obstacle to the attainment of Prohibition is the Constitution of the United States, the instrument that decreed its birth.”
LAST CALL
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Shooting an Indian from an and-bush is acting up to his own principles, and now we have what you call a lawful war on our hands, the sooner you wipe that disgrace off your conscience, the sounder will be your sleep; if it only come from knowing there is one inimy the less prowling in the woods.
The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path
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It takes us to the crematorial elegy land, the last lap of all journeys, sooner.
Do Atheists Exist?
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Opportunity, sooner or later, comes to all who work and wish.
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The opportunity came sooner than Lirael had expected, for whatever the Clayr were trying to See obviously still eluded them.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Sooner or later this crystallized into what is called a tanka or short ode.
Japanese Prints
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They were also more independently mobile and were able to be discharged sooner.
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The better way is to separate breachy animals from the lot, as others will imitate their habits sooner or later, and then, if not curable, _sell them_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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And that is because no sooner are they announced than they provoke widespread fear and condemnation from an army of professional naysayers.
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So start your fly parasite program sooner rather than later - if you're swatting flies as you read this, it may be too late to get parasites working for you on your place.
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No sooner had we ditched neutrals for grey when along came white.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sooner rather than later, you really must bake a loaf of bread.
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The cry of "enemy" will scarcely set an Igorot community astir sooner than will the cry of "cho'-chon.
The Bontoc Igorot
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Sooner or later the procureur général is going to demand a decision from him.
DISPLACED PERSON
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This is your opportunity to get involved and find your best young speller so the sooner you register, the sooner your children can start swotting!
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Extra doses of the hormone caused the animals' reproductive organs to develop sooner than usual.
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‘You should have pulled that out a few seconds sooner,’ said Bill, trying to spit out the ashy taste in his mouth.
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Titian, indeed, may be said to have first opened his eyes to the mysteries of nature; but they were no sooner opened, than he rushed into them with a rapidity and daring unwont to the more cautious spirit of his master; and, though irregular, eccentric, and often inferior, yet sometimes he made his way to poetical regions, of whose celestial hues even Titian himself had never dreamt.
Lectures on Art
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Sooner or later,the time comes when we all must become responsible adults,and learn to give up what we want,so we can choose to do what is right.Of course,a life time of responsibility isn'e always easy,and as the years go on,it's a burden that can become too heavy for some to bear.But still we try to do what is best,what is good.Not only for ourselves,but for those we love.Yes,sooner or later we must all become responsible adults.No one knows this better than the young.
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Extra doses of the hormone caused the animals' reproductive organs to develop sooner than usual.
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One may sooner fall than rise.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. George Bernard Shaw
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Once you are injected you will—sooner or later—develop full-blown AIDS.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden
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God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill State; which inforced uniformity sooner or later is the greatest occasion of civill Warre, ravishing of conscience, persecution of Christ Jesus in his servants, and of the hypocrisie and destruction of millions of souls.
Constitutional blood.
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Be sure that sooner or later someone will try to revenge him.
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I'd sooner die than give up
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With half a season to go, an affirmative answer is required sooner rather than later.
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No sooner had he arrived than the isolation tore away his civilized exterior and made his inner savageness emerge.
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Sooner or later some smarty-pants interviewer is bound to ask about this.
Times, Sunday Times
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I truly believe this set back, although horrific, my bet is they will recover and move on, hopefully sooner than soon.
Monarch Butterfly Sanctuaries
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As I write, I cannot say with authority when the bulldozers will move onto the forty three acre site, but expect it to be sooner rather than later.
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Thus, it is found that 114 Codices sectionize the last Twelve Verses, against 37 which close the account at ver. 8, or sooner.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
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The sooner he could phone the mad scientist, and take them to the poly, the better.
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His irritability is so terrible upon politics that they are no sooner the topic of discourse than they cast upon his face the expression of a man who is going to defend himself against murderers!
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
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No sooner do they arrive at their destination than he is already fidgeting to get back to work.
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Sooner or later you will find one or more adult insects crawling around inside the cage.
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The police asked me to explain why I hadn't reported the accident sooner.
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But no sooner had she gone, than he rang for Mrs Bolton, and asked her to take a hand at piquet or bezique, or even chess.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now.
Randal Cremer - Nobel Lecture
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Dorothy had no sooner possessed herself of a slight packet of the rumours which were flying abroad than she bounced into her master's bedroom, who had taken the privilege of age and the holytide to sleep longer than usual.
The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
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It is remarkable that nobody noticed sooner.
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I'm working on my fitness and I will be ready in a couple of weeks, if not sooner.
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Zephaniah is advanced, sooner than he expected, to this place of trust and power, and Shemaiah would have him think that Providence had preferred him that he might persecute God's prophets, that he had come to this government for such a time as this, and that he was unjust and ungrateful if he did not thus improve his power, or, rather, abuse it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Is the News of the World suggesting that the BBC should have released his name sooner so that other journalists could start badgering him earlier over the affair?
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He was no sooner disengaged, than he betook himself to his heels, and left me to maintain the dispute as I should think proper; and, indeed, I came off but scurvily, for, before I could avail myself of my speed, I received a blow on the eye, from one of the other two, that had well nigh deprived me of the use of that organ.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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These jokers deserve to go out of business, the sooner the better.
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The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one. John Dryden
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But the more and holier ceremonies the league is knit up with, the sooner it is broken by some cavillation found in the words, which many times of purpose be so craftily put in and placed, that the bands can never be so sure nor so strong, but they will find some hole open to creep out at, and to break both league and truth.
The Second Book. Of Bondmen, Sick Persons, Wedlock, and divers other matters
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My advice is to go to see this film sooner, rather than later because you may well want to return to see it again armed with a pen and copious amounts of paper.
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The younger the child and the sooner the replantation, the better the success; teeth replanted within 15 minutes stand a 98% chance of being retained after further dental attention.
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But with Shi'ite religious parties emerging as the strongest power, no sooner were the elections over than voices were raised for the creation of an autonomous southern Iraqi region, and for vilayet-e-faqih .
THE NEWS BLOG
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And really, if they had done this so-called contraflow, reverse the directions of the interstate, a little sooner you might have been in better shape.
CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2005
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No sooner would one be fired than the crew would instantly expose itself to raking sniper fire.
THE HUNTING OF MAN
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Sooner or later man is shaken out of his unconscious state and is led to his ultimate awakening.
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let's meet tonight if not sooner
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No sooner was Howie on the ground than his father took a two-handed grip of the parasite.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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No sooner has he established his superiority over one mile than he is challenged to do so over half as far again in the Derby.
Times, Sunday Times
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See, I only know her as the author of my favourite book - I've never even read her other ones because I'm frightened they might be rubbish and so I wouldn't appreciate namedropper in the same way again : But after writing this post I thought I'd actually do some research and it seems like she's REALLY famous and I'm a moron for not knowing it sooner. sigh.
Namedropper
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They clicked with people; there was a sense that getting on their bandwagon sooner than later would keep you from falling out of the loop.
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Everyone gets a nickname sooner or later in Mexico, and Thia’s already been given one by the night shift: La Luz—“the Light.”
Gringos in Paradise
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Sooner or later students will need to swing, or stop a swing, to avoid a collision on the ground.
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I think it a conclusion, fully justified by analogy, that, sooner or later, we shall discover the remains of our less specialised primatic ancestors in the strata which have yielded the less specialised equine and canine quadrupeds.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays
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A horror of any kind was no sooner past than it was straightway forgotten, and the facetious animal would advance with arched back and glaring eyes in defiance of an incursive hen, or twirl in mad hopeless career after its own miserable tail!
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
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But he was there and a force in Zimbabwean politics before independence: the chances are that he would have come to power sooner or later.
Archive 2007-11-18
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Some good may come of evil if the international criminal court comes into being sooner.
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He agreed to furnish dogs on a given date, but no sooner had Floyd Vanderlip turned his toes up-creek, than Charley hied himself away in perturbation to Loraine Lisznayi.
Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women
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The _popular_ free discussion of affairs of the last degree of complication, religious and state affairs, except during the _crisis_ period of revolution, only renders that worst of despotisms, anarchy, chronic; it seats in the social organism that political gangrene, demagogism, which has always hitherto sooner or later required the cauterization of military despotism in order to save even civilization.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880
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After observing the autumn cubbing and seeing the unrequited cruelty of the killing of innocents and following the trail of devastation, the sooner they are dealt with the better.
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Notwithstanding all my daughter says in gaiety of heart, she would sooner even relinquish the man she loves, than offend a father in whom she has always found the tenderest and most faithful of friends.
The History of Emily Montague
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Detective Holt said: "The kidnapper is a man we must catch and the sooner the better".
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If the artist bends his or her will, at whatever cost, to the illumination of difficult moral, social and psychological problems, this must sooner or later find a deep response in the population.
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This is probably owing principally to the mucilage contained in the bran, which runs into the acetous fermentation sooner than starch.
