It probably dates back to an earlier period, as it was an oral procedure.

The International Business Companies Act (2004) supersedes the earlier legislation provided for a seven year transition period.

If China is excluded, the ratio is actually lower than in the earlier period by one percentage point.

As I mentioned earlier, in the course of the period under review, the Court rendered judgments in 10 cases.

The draft called for a 30 day period to study the options, up from 15 days in the earlier draft.

Compounded growth rate in the period 1990 2000 was 1.5 per cent, rather than the earlier projection of 2.3 per cent.

In the Museum of Mankind collections, there exist several glass necklaces that were made in Hebron during the Mandate period or earlier.

Fixed asset investment in India rose by only 2.3 in the first half of 2012, compared to 9 in the year earlier period.

Earlier in the reporting period, President Bashir, the late First Vice President Garang and Vice President Ali Osman Taha were sworn in on 9 July.

In earlier days seaweed was used for cleaning, but by the Edo period, these had been replaced by toilet paper made of washi (traditional Japanese paper).

The cultural revival that began in the Abbasid period led to a resurfacing of Iranian national identity, and so earlier attempts of Arabization never succeeded in Iran.

Both Vanth and Charun are only seen in iconography beginning c. 400 BC, in the middle period of Etruscan art, although some earlier inscriptions mention her name.

With regard to the future of the peace process, as noted earlier in this report, there have been both positive momentum and some concerns over the reporting period.

They can retire earlier and earlier on their smaller and smaller savings.

To enhance consistency in the application of adjustments for any given Party, the same adjustment method should be used, whenever possible, in cases where the same inventory problem was adjusted in an earlier year (e.g. for the base year or for an earlier year of the commitment period).

It should be reiterated that the information at issue was considerably more serious than that provided by the complainant a year earlier and that it concerned the same time period.

This is precisely what the government has been doing since the election earlier this year indeed, no French government has ever carried out so many reforms in such a short period of time.

In the earlier period, within employment legislation of BiH women have been guaranteed equal salary for equal work and ensured special protection of motherhood, health and social protection based on the same principles.

The outlook for 2006 was also bullish, with preliminary data for the first quarter indicating that FDI flows had already reached US 14 billion, up from US 7.4 billion in the year earlier period.

In the developed countries, too, trade liberalization, which started earlier in the postwar period, was accompanied by other forms of economic opening (for example, a return to currency convertibility), resulting in rapid GDP growth.

His mother died earlier today.

I should have left earlier.

A crowd of earlier generations

A crowd of earlier generations

The earlier those reforms are implemented, the earlier the work of the United Nations can be further improved.

During the mandate period, the investigations of the Monitoring Group did not reveal any major arms shipment by air, unlike a trend that was very common during the earlier days covered by the Panel of Experts.

Why didn't you call me earlier?

Why didn't you call me earlier?

Why didn't you call me earlier?

Ayman Haykal, whom I'd mentioned earlier.

In an earlier post, he explained

You are to get up earlier.

We should have set off earlier.

A number of the earlier peoples ,

A number of the earlier peoples ,

Should he have expressed them earlier? Certainly.

Consider the two earlier Security Council resolutions.

There was a major tsunami watch, earlier.

Earlier today, the Ministry of Interior announced

You ought to have come here earlier.

Have We not destroyed the earlier generations ?

This is surely in the earlier Books ,

A large group from the earlier generations .

A large group from the earlier generations .

Did We not destroy the earlier people ?