the former in English

adjective

first or first referred to of 2 things, first of two people

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1. The former Kaiser.

2. “For a long moment we grasped each other’s hands, the former guard and the former prisoner.

3. He is the former governor of the People's Bank of China, and the former mayor of Tianjin.

4. The former constituency boundaries are oriented to the districts and cities, that were accepted in the former DDR.

5. The former are space and time.

6. The former president is just that.

7. It replaces the former quarter sessions.

8. One of the former meanings of Allude …

9. The genus includes the former Bomolocha species.

10. The former manor house passed to Bonds.

11. The former were sent to gas chambers.

12. The former LED product group of Cree, Inc

13. 3 There is goodwill between the former enemies.

14. They lauded the former president as a hero.

15. Charles Robb, the former Democratic governor of Virginia.

16. The former heavyweight champion was outwitted and outfought.

17. 9 The former option favours the married man.

18. Upon further oxidation the former yields hexanedioic acid.

19. In addition, the former freight hall still exists.

20. The former is bisected by the Euphrates valley.

21. The former LED product group of Cree, Inc

22. Chet Madden was the former director of A.i.m

23. The former dense forest has been partly cleared for cultivation, to which the alluvial soil of the former glacial valley is well suited.

24. Rove through Bratislava's past in the former town hall

25. 16 Fighting is continuing in the former Belgian colony.

26. The former epithet is apt, the latter less so.

27. There, at age Ma became the former dictator's protege.

28. He was the ringmaster against the former circus act.

29. His mother Abigail was the former wife of Nabal.

30. Olsson is the former world number two singles player.

31. Opened in 2011, it replaced the former National Stadium.

32. 10 The former priest denied allegations of sexual misconduct.

33. Bonanni, the former assistant director for Installations and Logistics.

34. The newspaper condemned the former mayor's bigotry toward gays.

35. The war widowed many women in the former Yugoslavia.

36. Aix-en, the former capital of Provence in France.

37. He served as an aide to the former president.

38. The former now seem to be in the ascendancy.

39. The war widowed many women in the former yugoslavia.

40. Civil war raged for years in the former Yugoslavia.

41. • Evaluate available data for the Former Cryolite Recovery Plant

42. Daughter of the former Mayor of Aix Gratien Ferrari.

43. 14 The former dock area is ripe for development.

44. The former dense forest has been partly transformed into cultivated land, to which the alluvial soil of the former glacial valley is well suited.

45. Visit to the Nemrud of General Halil Sözer, the former commander of the Turkish Airforce and general Adnan Dogu, the former commander of the Gendarma.

46. An example of the former is the Creator’s personal name.

47. The former president has been forced to flee the country.

48. 3 Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.

49. Here is a glorious foreglimpse: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the former heaven and the former earth had passed away . . .

50. The region is coextensive with the former province of Champagne…