sooner

"And often, no sooner were you getting used to having him around, you would suddenly be alone... again, leaving you with some 'interesting' friends to entertain instead."

Though he wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Let’s Hit ‘Pause’ Before Altering Humankind,” Baltimore admitted later that genome-editing would in all probability take place sooner rather than later.

Some go much sooner, and others live several years longer.

The team is concentrating instead on what it insists will be a bright future, one that will arrive sooner rather than later.

"The sooner we get to a full resolution, the better."