Some of the earliest items in her collection look more like implements of torture.

As an annual publication, it records the previous year's published work in its field, with provision for retrospective inclusion of earlier items.

An earlier item on the Review Board agenda has taken longer than expected.

But, unlike its predecessor, both these and the earlier historical items are given little social or economic context.

Most clothing items at a sale range from the late 1800's to the mid-1900's, but there have been earlier items as well.

The bill deserves to be an early item of business for the next Congress and the next President.

(Posting here because comments were closed before I was allowed a response to your earlier item.)

Clocks were some of the earliest mass-produced items, beginning around 1830.

The earliest item is an account book dated 1737-1769.

The earliest item in the collection is from 1936.