abans in English:

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We’ve all heard of outdated laws that remain on the books from earlier times, many of which are good for a few laughs.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.

Death before dishonor!

The fact that Britain had no national anthem before 1745 is in itself of little consequence.

Before long, the moon came out.

I told you before that you should ask your mother first.

Before Tom met Mary, he never seemed to be happy.

She had been in the hospital for a week before her husband came back.

Many parents think it's important for their children to eat before 8:00 p.m.

Before you can love others, you need to be able to love yourself.

Humanity has suffered more from war in this century than ever before.

He had not been employed by the company two years before his linguistic abilities were recognized.

It was very cold, and then before long, on top of that, it began to rain.

I'll leave a key with my next-door neighbour in case you get here before I do.

Before going to study in Paris, I must brush up on my French.

I met Tom before I graduated from high school, but didn't meet Mary until many years later.

It's very unlikely that we will release a new album before next winter.