The phrase "an early contract" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a contract that was created or signed at an earlier time than others.
Example: "We need to review an early contract to understand the terms that were agreed upon before the amendments."
Alternatives: "a preliminary contract" or "an initial contract".
Mark Bowman, an early contract employee in Russia who is now back in Moscow as deputy director of NASA's human space flight program in Russia, recalled a weekly teleconference with his boss in Houston.
Mark Bowman, an early contract employee in Russia who is now back in Moscow as a NASA representative, said that Korolev, where mission control is, "was a closed city" when he arrived in 1993.
Wettstein and Minder (2012) calculated an early contract termination rate of approximately 9.9% in the Canton of Zurich in 2011, in comparison with 8.1% in Canton Bern and 8.9% in Canton Aargau.
The company is already shipping components under an earlier contract.
It is understood that it made a similar profit on an earlier contract covering 2003 to 2006.
In May, the comptroller's office replaced Allonhill, the consultant for Aurora Bank, after the firm disclosed that it had already reviewed some "of the same pool of loans" as part of an earlier contract.
Under an earlier contract, Network Solutions, which has since been acquired by VeriSign, would have been required to sell either the registry database or its retail division, on the theory that operating both was a conflict of interest.
(Sadly, DuVernay will not receive credit due to an earlier contract giving Webb exclusive billing. "I have let it go," she said, about the decision. "There's nothing I can do about it").
The County Correction Officers Benevolent Association challenged the new policy, arguing that the county could only create such sex-specific posts at the jail if it had been stipulated in an earlier contract.
It is possible that Cashman chose to lash out because this particular incident irritated him so, but it was more likely a culmination — or rather, a continuation — of years of exasperation, most of which followed the 10-year, $275 million contract that Cashman never wanted to give Rodriguez after he opted out of an earlier contract after the 2007 season.
On current evidence, however, Moyes may well have done Everton a huge favour by paying the price for Fellaini - £4m more than he would have cost had he activated an earlier contract release clause.
