The early wave would be there in another thirty hours.

The present bridge was constructed in the early wave of major new infrastructure funded by the gold rushes.

They huddled around an artifact left by an earlier wave of colonization.

An earlier wave of growth in the early 1980s was driven by demand for strategy and organization consultancies.

But she stopped pushing the measure when she found out that a similar law had been passed in 1905, during an earlier wave of immigration.

Unlike earlier waves, they were more concentrated in cities, and integrated quickly.

The magazine, noted for its careful advice and clear writing, went on to make some early waves.

The band was a pioneer in the early American new wave and punk scenes of the mid-1970s.

All of these 4855 respondents have already taken part in at least one earlier wave.

The qualifier "new" is to contrast with the earlier wave of European colonization from the 15th to early 19th centuries.