The phrase "a database of earlier" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing data storage or historical records, but it needs additional information to clarify its meaning.
Example: "The researchers created a database of earlier studies to analyze trends in the data."
Alternatives: "a collection of previous" or "a repository of past".
Motion Picture & Television Reading Room, Library of Congress: The American Memory Collection is a database of early American motion picture archives within the Library of Congress.
In a Literary Lab project on 18th-century novels, English students study a database of nearly 2,000 early books to tease out when "romances," "tales" and "histories" first emerged as novels, and what the different terms signified.
A total of 58 arterial tissue samples were imaged over 2 mm × 2 mm field of view by the multispectral FLIM system described earlier, generating a database of 58 multispectral FLIM data cubes of size 60 × 60 × 768 (x × y × t; λ1, λ2, λ3).
As the company's data set has grown from just a few hundred companies in its early days to a database of over 500,000 companies, a community of vigilant users works to keep information up to date alongside a growing team of CrunchBase research analysts.
As the company's data set has grown from just a few hundred companies in its early days to a database of over 500,000 companies, a community of vigilant users works to keep information up to date alongside a growing team of CrunchBase research analysts.
That uncertainty has inspired a group of researchers to compile the most extensive database of early refracting telescopes to date, presented here yesterday during a poster session at the annual meeting of AAAS, which publishes Science.
The design of our database will take account of such models as Philobiblon, the bio-bibliographical database of early texts produced in the Iberian Peninsula that has been developed at the U. of California, Berkeley.
This software has enabled us to replicate the most useful features of similar databases already in existence most notably the Philobiblon database of early Iberian texts (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/PhiloBiblon/phhm.html -- while giving us the flexibility to meet the needs imposed by the South Asian cultural/intellectual context and the specific objectives of the project.
Scientists may finally be able to figure that out, thanks to the most extensive online database of early refracting telescopes, revealed at the meeting.
The need for prospective data can be shown; ECF chemotherapy for gastoesophageal cancer produced an incidence of 17.7% VTE in an RCT setting (Starling et al, 2007), whereas a retrospective database analysis of earlier RCTs using the same regimen from the same group presented a year earlier recorded only 3%.
