You're home earlier than I expected.

Of these, only three are expected to finalize their NAPAs earlier than planned, and 14 have had to postpone the completion date.

Start Not Earlier Than

A request to that effect must be submitted not earlier than 6 months and not later than 2 months before the date when enforcement of the expulsion can be expected.

He arrived earlier than usual.

Starting earlier than early start

In particular, GDP growth is expected to be 1 per cent lower than predicted earlier in Sri Lanka owing to the effects of the tsunami.

The meeting ended earlier than usual.

I left earlier than my sister.

Only an hour earlier than here.

It's worse than expected.

These flowers bloom earlier than others do.

Sooner than you expected, huh?

Better than you ever expected.

My brother always gets up earlier than I.

These changes in demand and supply suggest that the future price of oil will be lower than industry participants expected until just a few months ago. Some of the recent changes in expected future demand and supply could have been anticipated earlier.

The sun rises earlier in summer than in winter.

He offered more than could be expected.

This chicken took longer than I expected.

What if it takes longer than expected?

This morning I got up an hour earlier than usual.

Tom came a little earlier today than he usually does.

It's taking a little longer than I expected.

More than 80 countries are expected to attend.

It's inexcusable. But we finish sooner than expected.

One two years earlier had killed more than a million people.

She began her duties as a permanent judge earlier than scheduled.

It has been shown that women leave politics earlier than men.

The assignment took me longer than I had expected.

The math homework was easier than I had expected.

The wind's stronger than I expected. Much too much.

I've finished a case a little earlier than I expected and I told my wife I'd try and join her later if I could but I very stupidly forgot where she said she was going.

The shooting' couldn't have happened more than a minute or two earlier.

Just why is General Tanz arriving three days earlier than was planned?

Some things, as you can see, went longer than expected.

The expected five year survival is less than five percent.

That one was way more difficult than I had expected.

The dolphin and trainer communicated much better than we expected.

The results of the programme have been better than expected.

According to UNHCR, however, returns have been slower than expected.

(f) Effect of higher than expected number of new entrants

Preliminary estimates indicate that CO2 emissions may be increasing more slowly than originally expected, even though GDP grew faster than expected at the beginning of the decade.

Instead, after successive revisions, world GDP in 2012 is now expected to grow by only 3.3 while inflation is forecast to reach 4 , signaling much weaker global economic momentum than was anticipated. Lower than expected growth and higher than expected inflation have affected most economies.

(f) The intentional destruction of bookkeeping documents earlier than foreseen by the law.

Now, we'll have even less than that stat I told you about earlier.