The phrase "an earlier section of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a part of a text or document that was mentioned or discussed previously.
Example: "As discussed in an earlier section of this report, the findings indicate a significant trend in consumer behavior."
Alternatives: "a previous part of" or "a prior section of".
It seems so obvious to me now but if you want to change an earlier section of a tapestry, everything has to be unpicked.
Electrophoresis, described in an earlier section of this article, is an important method in the separation of biopolymers namely, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules and proteins.
In an earlier section of "Why I Am Not a Feminist," Crispin rails against feminist flippancy toward men, writing, "It is always easier to find your sense of value by demeaning another's value.
One reason, as an earlier section of this report has described, was the failure to deal decisively with the bad loans clogging its banks, which propped up inefficient "zombie" companies rather than forcing them into liquidation.
This notion is particularly odd given an earlier section of the book in which Nunberg does a nice critical number on what is surely the most overrated essay in the modern canon, George Orwell's turgid, self-righteous and philosophically hopeless "Politics and the English Language".
A standard means of analyzing fMRI data consists in averaging several data sets and subtracting an estimate of baseline activation from the composites (discussed in an earlier section of this entry).
Step 3: The probabilistic weight connecting two nodes in a graph is utilized to cluster the nodes in the graph using application of Steps 1 to 4. Step 4: Only sub-goal states of each cluster are identified using application of method described in an earlier section on our approach to clustering of nodes of this work.
In 2013, an early section of his book was submitted by his agent to the king-making Granta Under-40 list in.
