alternately vs sooner

alternately

adv
  • Alternatively. 

  • In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order. 

  • By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent. 

sooner

adv
  • rather. 

How often have the words alternately and sooner occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )