"I only wish we had thought of it centuries earlier."

He had said in different words what I had thought earlier.

You might have ordered a fountain pen, if we had thought of it earlier.

It was almost a direct quote from something I'd thought earlier.

She'd thought of Stacy as the dead guy not three hours earlier.

It was too late now, she should have thought of it earlier.

We should have thought of it earlier, now it's too late.

I had thought earlier, Oh, what's a dozen or so dragons in a big forest?

An estimated 18,300 homes and offices were earlier thought to have been damaged.

All the terrible things she had thought earlier rose up in Pat's mind.