Here are some examples: No sooner than we arrived at the campground, it began to rain heavily. We will eat dinner tonight no sooner than 8 o' clock because I have a lot of errands to run and will not start cooking until 7. No sooner is sometimes separated from than : No sooner had I put a bucket under one leak in the ceiling, than another appeared, dripping rainwater on the kitchen floor.
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