earlier generations 意味

• 古い世代｛せだい｝の人たち、旧世代｛きゅう せだい｝
  

例文

1. and just as the earlier generations of managers
   工場の再編成が必要だった―
2. perhaps in earlier generations ...
   何代も前には いたのかもしれへんけど
3. but i know that today's work culture no longer caters to the job loyalty that could be promised to earlier generations .
   でも今の労働文化に その需要はない
4. as with earlier generations , the head of a different family branch (year of birth unknown - 1926 ) took the name kanbe fujima v (though nominally kanbe fujima vi ).
   同じく別家元（生年不詳 - 大正15年（1926年）） が5代目勘兵衛（名義上6代目）を名乗った。