"sooner rather than later" meaning in English

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          "text": "Their present policy of sterilizing monetary inflows is creating imbalances which suggests, sooner rather than later, they're going to have to, for stability purposes, move their currency.",
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          "text": "The response rate is probably higher when treatment is applied sooner rather than later after diagnosis and to children with VSAA rather than AA.",
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        "In the fairly near future; fairly soon."
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          "word": "más pronto que tarde"
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