I would sooner do in English:

It was obvious to everyone that the marriage would sooner or later end in divorce.

The sooner, the better.

Sooner or later, she will appear.

If we hadn't lost our way, we would have been here sooner.

Sooner or later, every parent has to have a talk with their children about the birds and the bees.

If only the doctor had come a little sooner.

He sent me a letter to the effect that his poultry farm would go bankrupt sooner or later.

He and I have a near-telepathic understanding of each other. No sooner does one of us say something than the other is already responding.

No sooner had the younger brother gone into the forest than he found the river, swam across it, and there on the other side was the she-bear, fast asleep.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think — in fact they do so.

You should have come here sooner instead of putting it off out of pride for so long.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think;- And no man knows what then she may discover.

No sooner had we finished working on one tough problem than the president sent us yet another straight from the top.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

Young people adapt themselves to something sooner than old people.