1. earlier
He decided to feed his dog the rabbit that he had shot earlier that day.
Earlier, as I was walking down the sidewalk, a car drove by and splashed water on me. Look at this! My skirt and shoes are all muddy.
Tom acknowledged that what he said earlier was not true.
Japan's gold and foreign exchange reserves stood at $68.9 billion at the end of 1998, down from $77.0 billion a year earlier.
If you want to catch the 7 o'clock bus, you must leave earlier.
I told you we should've gotten here earlier. Now there aren't any places left to sit.
Earlier in his life, he ran a hotel.
all those years earlier
He said that he was tired and that is why he'd like to go home earlier.
The job-seeking season is starting earlier each year and it's the mass media that are causing that trend by moving up their job interview schedule.
An earlier sense of a word need not be its present basic sense.
It is impossible to burn a copy of Dante's Inferno because the ice of the ninth layer of hell will put out any fires kindled with earlier pages.
We’ve all heard of outdated laws that remain on the books from earlier times, many of which are good for a few laughs.
Why didn't you tell us about this earlier? We'd have been able to do something about it.
2. east
People from the East do not look at things the same as we do.
The Balkan Mountain range runs across Bulgaria from west to east.
President Barack Obama praised Poland as an example for aspiring democracies in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Forks were used for many years in Europe and the Near East, but only for cooking.
in the north-east
The East Asian economies were hit hard by energy price increases.
Because of the difference in climate, the same crop is not cultivated in the North and East of the country.
Speaking with reporters in Montreal, Canada, Walesa says the change of leadership in East Germany came about because the old guard leaders missed the train of history.
As commercial and cultural contacts between East and West developed, Arab and Persian traders began calling on China along the Silk Road in increasing numbers.
The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him.
The UFO, with a zigzag movement you couldn't think of as being a plane, flew off into the mountains in the east.
The South East region of England is densely populated.
And so the family moved to Rajkot, about 190 kilometres east
Fork-users are mainly in Europe, North America, and Latin America; chopstick-users in eastern Asia and finger-users in Africa, the Middle East, Indonesia, and India.
Nearly all siheyuans had their main buildings and gates facing south for better lighting, so a majority of hutongs run from east to west.
英語 "という言葉पूर्व"(east)集合で発生します。
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