He'd no sooner begun to speak than the lights went out. = Konuşmaya başlar başlamaz ışıklar söndü.
I’d no sooner completed the report I was working on than my secretry put three more on my desk .
No sooner had I started mowing the lawn than it started raining.
... and hopefully sooner than later ...
... about three years ago that it would be sooner than 20 years. ...