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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an early request" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a request that was made ahead of time or prior to a certain deadline or event.
Example: "I appreciate your consideration of my early request for the meeting agenda."
Alternatives: "a prior request" or "a preliminary request".
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3.34pm BST Before we start, an early request from the man at the toppermost of the MBM poppermost, Gary Naylor.
I'd like to table an early request to get the band back together, because I'm not sure I can take any more of those tiny, brittle cracks appearing on Saga's magnificently impervious face.
Matthews said he agreed to an early request by City of London police to upgrade the postmortem to a "special examination" – a form of autopsy conducted in suspicious deaths.
Gov. Jeb Bush refused today to allow an early request for clemency of a 14-year-old boy sentenced to life in prison for beating a 6-year-old girl to death.
But the response to an early request for development proposals was inconclusive, and the island's operating corporation decided to open the island to visitors each summer, moving ahead first with building a fan base, then with an open-space competition, and now with the construction of that new landscape, all without a hotel, university, or museum in place.
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Last fall, the state, without explanation, dropped an earlier request to seek the death penalty.
The UK government refused an earlier request to allow Assange safe passage for hospital treatment.
"As you know," it said, "an earlier request to visit specific detainees held at Passaic County Jail was denied.
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