The sudden and tremendous rush of water had the same effect on the underground complex as the earlier explosions.

That effort was minuscule compared with the Pirates' earlier explosion.

Should not this relatively inexpensive measure have been taken after the earlier explosion?

He belonged to the generation whose parents were exposed to the effects of the early atomic explosions.

We were careful not to rile her these days, after her earlier explosion.

An earlier explosion at the same location in 1984 killed 12 people.

I thought the earlier explosion in the field had rattled my companion's mind loose from its casing.

The titanium hull had already been weakened by the earlier explosions.

It was probably weakened in the earlier explosion.

He threw his arms up simulating the earlier explosion Jonnie had made.