The phrase "a prior plan" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a plan that was made before a certain point in time or before another plan was created.
Example: "Before we proceed with the new strategy, we need to evaluate the effectiveness of a prior plan."
Alternatives: "an earlier plan" or "a previous plan".
But this need not involve stopping at a point determined by a prior plan.
A true artist cares about the end product as the completion of what went before, not as something conforming to a prior plan.
A prior plan to develop a wireless thermometer to simplify that part of the system has so far been put on hold, co-founder Scherwitzl tells TechCrunch, in favor of funding research to quantify accuracy rates.
More specifically, someone who reasons in accordance with this deliberative procedure does worse in autonomous benefit cases than someone who is willing to resolutely stick to a prior plan that he did well to adopt.
Relatedly, they see drinking the toxin in accordance with a prior plan to drink the toxin as rational, indeed as rationally required, given that one did well to adopt the plan; so rationality helps one benefit, rather than hindering one from benefiting, in autonomous benefit cases like the toxin case.
However, all is not lost if this didn't happen; the lack of a prior plan simply means that one needs to be established immediately.
Abrupt thrust on infrastructure development in the valley regions of Sikkim Himalaya has led to a need for a prior planning to face landslide hazard.
IR reflectograms taken in the spectral regions of 1100 1400, 1500 1800, and 2100 to 2400 nm show progressive improvements in the clarity of the underdrawing of a prior planned composition.
However the risk of labour <39 weeks varied depending on previous delivery history: 25% (1 in 4) for those with spontaneous preterm labour in a prior pregnancy; 15% (1 in 7) for women with a prior planned preterm birth (by labour induction or prelabour caesarean) and 6% (1 in 17) among those who had only previously had a planned caesarean section at term.
In the fall, IBM appeased the pension gods and dumped $3 billion of cash and stock into its plan, accelerating a prior funding plan.
And, hey, at this picnic you can pop inside for whatever you desire without any prior planning.
