The first unit had actually been created two years earlier.

The Jesuits had tried to create the university earlier, in 1589, but did not succeed.

Typically, a persona that was created earlier is used as the main character of this story.

The article said that the composite had been created a year earlier, in August 2001, but no one knows its origin.

It had been created more than a decade earlier, when covert operations were standard.

Assets are short term advantages that were created earlier in the scene by using an effect die.

Ken Parker, however, had been created three years earlier on a magazine of the same publisher.

In 1929, he was named city manager, a position created earlier in the decade.

The pond in which the island is set had been created only a few years earlier, in 1969.

It was created by Celtic monks ca. 800 or slightly earlier.