The phrase "assigned before" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to tasks, roles, or responsibilities that were designated or allocated at an earlier time.
Example: "The tasks assigned before the meeting need to be completed by the end of the day."
Alternatives: "designated earlier" or "allocated previously".
Route 8, one of the routes assigned before the 1927 renumbering, ran largely along the present Route 23 corridor, but at Sussex it turned north rather than continuing northwest through High Point State Park.
For each institution the number of stars assigned before and after adjusting for interviewer and resident characteristics were compared and calculated the percentage of institutions that was assigned a different number of stars.
This population consisted of 99 subjects randomly assigned before known pregnancy (44 to IAsp and 55 to human insulin) and 223 subjects randomly assigned in early pregnancy (113 to IAsp and 110 to human insulin).
When tag count was zero the "zero substitution value" 0.345 was assigned before calculation of R. The annotation of SAGE tags (assignment to the corresponding mRNA and protein) is frequently made by interrogating databases of virtual tags extracted from unigene entries [ 26, 27, 42- 44].
Nearly a thousand pages of reading was assigned before my junior year; the letter from the English department warned, "If these assignments seem daunting, please see your counselor and arrange your transfer out of this course".
"He would say to me, you know, I go to more fires than you do," said John Dopwell, a former colleague at Ladder 24, where Firefighter Henry was assigned before moving on to Rescue 1, also in Manhattan.
One consequence, however, is that S.S.N.'s issued since then are even less randomly assigned than before -- and thus easier to crack.
Haplotypes and breed-of-origin were assigned as before and 13 recombinants with degree of black scores were identified.
Excess mortality was also observed for several conditions to which ICD coding rubrics assigned mesothelioma deaths before 1999.
Before Iraq, freshly minted soldiers could expect months, if not years, of additional training in their assigned units before seeing combat.
Prior to the mid-20th century, asteroids were sometimes assigned numbers before accurate orbital elements had been determined, so some numbered asteroids could not later be located.
