However, there is evidence that the play was written several years earlier.

There is evidence, however, that the play may have been written some years earlier than this.

Despite being published in 1976, this story was written a year earlier.

But, as we wrote earlier, the software side isn't the whole story.

It's also quite a help to be able to edit what you've written earlier.

He may have written poems earlier in his life but they no longer exist.

But that the body of it was written earlier I see no reason to doubt; and if so, this is its proper place.

"Together we could really make a difference," she had written earlier in a typical e-mail message.

He's able to produce a letter addressed to a member of the town, written by her sister in Denver 15 years earlier.

When he does finally answer a question, it is the different one of why he has not written the book earlier.