Below you will find example sentences with "earliest times". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Earliest Times in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: earliest
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 3
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.2 words

Words in this phrase

earliest times

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • earliest can mean: superlative form of early: most early Frequent word
  • times can mean: plural of time Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

from the earliest times to the 5× culture from earliest times 1× from earliest times cavalry had 1× from earliest times crowds at 1× from the earliest times 1× from the earliest times there were 1× from the earliest times they were 1× from the earliest times to 653 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a history of 3× from earliest times 2× a ball as 1× alexander a history 1× all male theatrical 1× from monumental sources 1×

Common sentence endings:

from earliest times 2× and prostyle buildings 1× as rock scratching 1× attitude being signified 1× independent policing force 1× jupiter and juno 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

history 6× art 3× end 2× objects 2× east 2× world 2× present 2× day 2× date 2× citation 2× new 2× culture 2×

Related phrases

four times five times york times ten times earliest days numerous times wait times earliest possible modern times multiple times

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around earliest:

earliest days 11× earliest possible 9× earliest known 7× earliest opportunity 7× earliest roles 4× earliest evidence 3×

Just before it in the phrase index:

earliest roles earliest possible earliest opportunity earliest known earliest evidence earliest days

Just after it in the phrase index:

early bird early childhood early diagnosis early exchanges early intervention early modern

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

earliest days earliest possible earliest known earliest opportunity earliest roles earliest evidence

Same ending:

four times five times york times ten times numerous times wait times

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "earliest times" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as from the earliest times to the, culture from earliest times, history, art and end stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with four times, five times, york times, earliest days, earliest possible and earliest known, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with earliest times

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. (12 words)

In the earliest times, this was done using more rudimentary methods such as rock scratching. (15 words)

But in the earliest times the "state" did not always provide an independent policing force. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

So I’m not sure if I have wisdom at the end of this story, but something about that description reminded me of one of my earliest times being racially profiled, or stopped by the police, when I was — well, actually, it’s not one of my earliest times. (49 words)

It includes some of the earliest objects made by humans in east Africa over 2 million years ago, as well as Prehistoric and neolithic objects from other parts of the world; and the art and archaeology of Europe from the earliest times to the present day. (46 words)

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

So I’m not sure if I have wisdom at the end of this story, but something about that description reminded me of one of my earliest times being racially profiled, or stopped by the police, when I was — well, actually, it’s not one of my earliest times.

It includes some of the earliest objects made by humans in east Africa over 2 million years ago, as well as Prehistoric and neolithic objects from other parts of the world; and the art and archaeology of Europe from the earliest times to the present day.

In the earliest times, this was done using more rudimentary methods such as rock scratching.

A ball, as the essential feature in many forms of gameplay requiring physical exertion, must date from the very earliest times.

A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era.

A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest.

A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day citation New York: Simon and Schuster.

Alexander: a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, B. C. 301, Volume 2 By Theodore Ayrault Dodge.

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All-male theatrical troupe preparing for a masked performance, on a mosaic from the House of the Tragic Poet Although sometimes regarded as foreign elements in Roman culture, music and dance had existed in Rome from earliest times.

But in the earliest times the "state" did not always provide an independent policing force.

From earliest times cavalry had the advantage of improved mobility, and a man fighting from horseback also had the advantages of greater height, speed, and inertial mass over an opponent on foot.

From earliest times, crowds at an entertainment have associated hazards and dangers, especially when combined with the recreational consumption of intoxicants such as alcohol.

From monumental sources such as tombs it is known that the symbolic fish was familiar to Christians from the earliest times.

His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.

I. J. Gelb and E. A. Speiser believed East Semitic speaking Assyrians Subarians had been the linguistic and ethnic substratum of northern Mesopotamia since earliest times, while Hurrians were merely late arrivals.

Indiana University Press. p. 108 From the earliest times there were certain rules strictly observed in rectangular peripteral and prostyle buildings.

It seems fairly safe to assume that from the earliest times they were identified by their own proper names and since they got them they were never changed through the course of history: they were called Jupiter and Juno.

Liu Shipei ( 劉師培 main; 1884–1919) created the Yellow Emperor Calendar, now often used to calculate the date, to show the unbroken continuity of the Han race and Han culture from earliest times.

Page 197. 173, Streams of Civilization: Earliest Times to the Discovery of the New World By Mary Stanton, Albert Hyma.

Rhetoric is broadly defined as the "Art of Persuasion", which has from earliest times been concerned with specific techniques for effective communication. citation Alliteration serves to "intensify any attitude being signified".

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