The phrase "an early overview" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when providing a preliminary summary or assessment of a topic or situation before delving into more detailed information.
Example: "In this report, we will provide an early overview of the project's objectives and expected outcomes."
Alternatives: "a preliminary summary" or "an initial assessment."
The 2018 U.S. proxy season is around the corner, and an early overview of shareholder proposal filings may give us a first taste of what is in store for investors and companies in terms of hot-button issues and overall market dynamics.
See Apt [1979] for an early overview.
Here, we present an early overview on currently available efficacy results of anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies in the treatment of chronic migraine.
Since mRNA splicing and gene regulation are important in the cellular machinery, this analysis provides an early overview of genes that carry out these functions.
An early overview of basic methods is given in [5], while a basic comparison of performances on widely used speech emotion corpora in early studies is given in [6].
An early overview of consensus methods is given by Jones & Hunter [7].
An earlier overview had found a nonsignificant 13% reduction at an average of 9 years of follow-up, the difference emerging after 8 years.
In the early overview analyses, however, relatively small numbers of premenopausal women were randomized in trials of tamoxifen, and most trials were of 1 2 years of therapy.
In the 1950s and 1960s, time use research was often applied in the study of free time and forms of leisure, for example the amount of television consumption (see early overviews of Andorka [1987]; Chapin [1974]; Robinson and Converse [1972]; Szalai [1966]).
It is important to acknowledge that this review has been inspired by earlier overviews published by others, in particular the work of Bregman (1990) and more recent reviews written by Darwin (1997 20088), Assman and Summerfield (2004), Shinn-Cunningham (2008), McDermott (2009), Näätänen, Kujala, and Winkler (2011), and Moore and Gockel (2012).
An early review [146], provides a concise overview of the state-of-the-art prior to 2004.
