The phrase "an earlier answer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring back to a response or reply that was given previously in a conversation or text.
Example: "In response to your question, I would like to clarify my point based on an earlier answer I provided."
Alternatives: "a previous response" or "a prior answer".
As I said in an earlier answer, I think S & P was ultimately making a judgement about the American political system.
12.25pm GMT David Heath, a Lib Dem MP, welcomes an announcement Cameron made in an earlier answer that a river in Somerset will be dredged.
Of those preceding years, he stood on an earlier answer: "When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible".
Mr. Kerry said that any noncitizen who served in the military should automatically become a naturalized citizen and criticized Dr. Dean for suggesting in an earlier answer that that should not be the case.
In an earlier answer I covered the options for a parent who is not able to resolve an issue with special education at the school level (contacting the family advocate for their school district, the community superintendent's office, or the special education call center at 311, or filing an impartial hearing request).
In an earlier answer, Flynn was told that ministers had: Been informed by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority NDAA) that it expects to have to grant an indemnity against uninsurable claims arising from a nuclear incident that fall outside the protections offered by the Nuclear Installations Act and the Paris/Brussels convention.
But the Wal-Mart and Comcast decisions said the two questions often overlap and may call for an early answer.
"I think we'll get an early answer quickly but with that we'll then go back to our barrister.
Although aducanumab holds promise as a potential Alzheimer's drug, it is for now an early answer to a more basic question about Alzheimer's disease: What role do clumps of beta-amyloid protein play in the disease?
In the best tradition of the eccentric scientist, he was a great inventor: he designed a car phone years before its time (it worked within a two-mile radius of his flat) and an early answering machine.
