"earlier experience" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to experiences that were had in the past. For example, "My earlier experience living abroad gave me a new perspective on the world."
Part of the knowledge (mood labels, song selection, interface) used to define the experiment stems from earlier experience gained in this area[13 15].
My guest was nervous from his earlier experience.
"From his earlier experience, his sense of risk is distorted," Dr. Goodman said.
In his image of Che, something survives of his earlier experience with beautiful women.
Having been duly informed by his grandmother of Ms. Kopelman's earlier experience, Mr. Kargman wasn't taking any chances.
But to me, his earlier experience in drafting and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation offers one of the best ways to appreciate his strengths as a leader.
What's most useful about Kupperman's work is the careful attention she pays to many of the Jamestown colonists' earlier experience with Islam.
The prospect of an American withdrawal horrifies the British and the French, who did not relish their earlier experience of being in Bosnia without the Americans.
And earlier experience is encouraging: exports helped Britain recover after the recession in the 1990s.But this time the export-led recovery has been slow in coming.
He recalled an earlier experience playing Lancelot in the Broadway musical "Spamalot," which was based on the film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".
He described his earlier experience looking into problems with nonprofits, saying his initial assessment was that it would take "a massive amount of legislation" to correct the problems.
