The phrase "as we first suggested" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer back to an earlier point or recommendation made in a discussion or document.
Example: "As we first suggested, implementing the new software will streamline our processes and improve efficiency."
Alternatives: "as we initially proposed" or "as we previously mentioned".
But for those of you distraught at the prospect of a trip to Dubai without this vista of the motorways, here's a short (nauseating) film.Correction: Last Saturday's stranding was due to a faulty elevator, not an escalator as we at first suggested.
Investors fear that if the settlement with the justice department is as large as first suggested, it put the measures used by regulators to gauge its financial health under pressure.
Whitworth et al. (2012) reported higher odds of subfecundity, but only among parous women, a finding the authors interpreted as evidence of reverse causation, as first suggested by Olsen et al. (2009).
– I'm not as reliable as I first suggested.
Was Rahim's death, as Ibrahim first suggested, as unnecessary as those of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and Freddie Gray?
The study is guided by the congruence model of aging people/environment interactions as first suggested by (Kahana (1975).
Sir Erich Reich, the chair of the organisation which represents Kindertransport survivors, wrote that Cameron should accept 3,000 refugees as first suggested by Dubs.
The UUP feared losses, though perhaps not on the scale as first suggested, while the SDLP was also in danger of losing ground.
However, in this essay we discuss an alternative aspect of degeneracy in T cell recognition: the notion that peptides can assume different "registers" in the groove of a single MHC molecule, as first suggested and demonstrated by Sercarz and co-workers (reviewed in [J. autoimmun. 16 (2001) 201]).
Famously, the discovery of rotating stellar corpses, eventually called as pulsars, were first suggested to be aliens.
