The phrase "earlier methods are" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to past methods that have been superseded by newer or more current methods. Example: "Earlier methods of communication, such as handwritten letters and telegrams, have been replaced by more efficient forms of technology like emails and instant messaging."
The administration does not acknowledge scaling back the Central Intelligence Agency's secret detention program, perhaps to avoid implying that earlier methods were immoral or illegal.
Mr Sarkozy insists that earlier methods were too lax, treating policemen like social workers not law-enforcement officers.
However, although these earlier methods were good at estimating the average BMI of a population, they were not so good at estimating the percentage of people in each state with BMIs at either end of the extreme — the underweight and the obese.
The early methods are mainly based on coherent estimation and subtraction of RFIs [2].
In this paper, the earlier method is improved using a dataset of 153 pile load tests and CPTu soundings from 52 worldwide sites.
An earlier method was used for the sulfamoylation of parent hydroxycoumarins (Scheme 1).
This earlier method is very efficient for C.elegans confocal images and other similar cases where the backbone is a simple smooth curve, and the body of the pattern is not fat (wide) enough so that the slightly non-parallel cutting planes next to each other will not intersect within the pattern.
The earlier method is based on an arbitrary transcription activator- like effector nuclease (TALEN) system (Cermak et al., 2011; Huang et al., 2011; Liu et al., 2012; Cheng et al., 2013; Friedland et al., 2013; Li et al., 2013; Sung et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2013; Yu et al., 2013a).
Raymond Pepi, president of Building Conservation Associates in Manhattan, said that the earliest methods were often used to analyze interior paint finishes in residential buildings and were derived from the work of art restorers, who often had to strip away successive layers of paint.
These early methods were problem specific.
