The phrase "we received earlier" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing something that was received at a prior time or earlier than expected. For example: - "We received earlier feedback from our clients, which helped us improve our product." - "As mentioned in the email we received earlier, the meeting has been rescheduled to next week." - "We apologize for the delay in responding to the message we received earlier. We have been experiencing technical difficulties." - "The package we received earlier this morning was damaged, so we will be sending a replacement."
The general gives a more detailed and gruesome review than the one we received earlier.
McManus's family said in a statement: "We are of course devastated by the news of Chris's death, which we received earlier today.
This is in line with the intelligence we received earlier yesterday about the Pixi launching in time for Fashion Week.
"But we received a call telling us that we had qualified for the Nations Cup - it was total happiness and we forgot the slap we received earlier from Egypt's young team".
I know the Finance Committee is doing the same," said Dodd. "Obviously the numbers we received earlier week had some sticker shock for us all".
First we would give precedence to news that only I had – we called them "exclusives" but they were basically press releases we received early – and wend our way to news others had – reblogging.
At the National Consultation Laboratory for Hantavirus Infections (Berlin), we received early-phase serum specimens from the outbreak regions for confirmation assays.
Due in part to a letter we received earlier this year from the Nassau County Office of Consumer Affairs, we have increased the frequency and thoroughness of these efforts".
The press release we received earlier this month was slightly more interesting, in that this particular Institute of Technology isn't in Massachusetts, but Manipal, in southwest India.
As you could tell from the screenshots we received earlier this week, a lot of thought has been put into the design of the OS, adapting it for optimal use on smaller screens.
As a Draper Fisher Jurvetson spokesperson noted in a canned statement we received earlier this week, "the Zapier platform builds on the movement of enterprise software to the cloud, and is already seeing great traction with its third-party developer products achieving tremendous growth in a very short period of time".
