"We realized pretty early on that it wasn't going to just be a marketing function, that there also needed to be a legal function involved with it.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

It doesn't matter if we finish a little bit early, but I want to try to get this game at least started.

不管能不能提前下课了,还是先开始这个游戏吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

This is actually a recurrent figure in the early poems, isn't it wonderful that there's a term for being turned to marble?

这事实上是在早期诗歌多次出现的一个形象，有一个术语形容变成石头，是不是很美妙？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Even that wasn't early enough.

WSJ: Basketball Diaries

One theory to explain why early introduction is important holds that if babies aren't exposed early enough to certain foods, their immune systems will treat them as foreign substances and attack them, resulting in an allergy.

WSJ: Food Allergy Advice for Parents: Start Peanuts, Eggs and More Sooner

Even some patients who don't respond early to pain stimuli or bright lights still recover, and Ms. Giffords's case doesn't appear as dire.

WSJ: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's Brain at Risk Despite Quick Aid After Shooting