Not only is the road earlier than we thought possible, we didn't even think they built roads.

不仅这条路比我们想象的要早，而且我们甚至没想过他们会修路。

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They came earlier than we had expected.

她们到患上比咱们预料的要早。

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They left earlier than we had expected.

他们离开的时间比我们预料的要早。

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That translates into "Unfortunately, despite the most recent indicators that suggest the recovery may be in sight somewhat earlier than we were expecting only a few months ago, it will take far for the recovery to materialize in terms of significant improvement in the labor market,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

You could absolutely implement something more interesting and something even more animated like we saw on Wednesday or even earlier today, but it takes a little more than just a format string.

你绝对可以实施一些更有用的,和一些更愉快的东西，像我们周三或今天早些时候,看到的，但它不只是,格式化字符串。

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That's a stronger line of reasoning than the reasoning we had earlier.

这个理由比我们之前的那些更有说服力

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They told us back in 2001 that we would close earlier than this, so we saw the writing on the walls.

NPR: Workers at Missouri Ford Plant Face Shutdown

We discuss IP for new drugs earlier in the day than we did 25 years ago.

BBC: Protecting that great idea with a patent

Over this investment horizon (which began only four years earlier than the one we looked at in Exhibit 1), due to lower investment returns we observe that only the 4% withdrawal rate holds.

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