But they do not fight their own war around the dinner table, like an earlier generation.

None was new, many seemed from a much earlier generation of technology.

Not all stories were set in present time, but included earlier generations.

Each generation has built on the work of the earlier generations.

As explained above, an early generation of stars first had to form.

Working men of earlier generations had less need to assert who or what they were.

As a rule, people who have come of age since the 1950's tend to eat out more often than earlier generations.

In an earlier generation someone might have said it looked like a supermarket opening.

And so it was with all our kind through the early generations.

An earlier generation would have torn it down and begun all over again.