I'd just been talking to them a couple of hours earlier, and they'd seemed like all right guys.

"The key is talking with our children early and often."

The two of us talked about you earlier in the day.

He had wanted to talk to her about it earlier.

He'd talked with the entire group earlier in the day.

He would have talked to you earlier, if there had been time.

Otherwise I would have tried to talk to you earlier.

And except for those broken patches of light from the study where we'd sat talking ten minutes earlier, the street was dark.

But in the new competitive climate, teams that don't start talking early are usually the ones left behind.

If they had started talking just a few minutes earlier, she would have finished before the sunlight struck her shoes.