The phrase "a former set" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a previous collection or group of items, often in contexts discussing changes or comparisons.
Example: "The new design is an improvement over a former set that lacked functionality."
Alternatives: "an earlier collection" or "a previous group".
"We have an affinity for gutting," said Ms. Almanza, a former set decorator.
He sent a flurry of emails to staff at the film's makers, Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures, and received a reply from a former set designer on the film – two years later.
One Sunday afternoon in August, Rosen went to the West Hampton airport and got on a private plane with his fiancée, Jenny Dyer, a former set decorator who now works on the interiors of Theory stores.
When Nico Arellano, a former set stylist from Uruguay, came in to photograph an eighth-floor, $2.3 million three-bedroom at 530 East 72nd Street, he realized that a couch and a pair of chairs swallowed up the space and did not show how large the living room actually was.
In the Shoppes on Fatherland, there's Moxie, a furniture store opened by a former set designer where you might find the perfect Lucite ice bucket, and Jones Fly Co., where a fly-fisherman hand ties his feathery designs on a raw wood workbench.
The guests of honor – three former cast members and a former set designer for Star Trek Deep Space Ninee – led the parade in convertibles.
SETTING This 1860 home, a former setting of a school for young children, is on the edge of Concord's historic district, a 10-minute walk from the center of town and less than an hour northwest of Boston.
The latter — a more mod-looking space with an orange couch, a geometric-patterned rug and a table with a chrome base — is a dramatic departure from the former set, which had a more subdued purple and beige palette.
The Xus are from Woodside, Queens; the father is an abstract painter and former set designer for the Shanghai Opera.
In a typical SRJ scheme, the former set of factors is employed in cycles of M consecutive iterations until a prescribed tolerance is reached.
Thus, it is possible that only some of these variables are directly connected to phenotypic potential; the effect of other variables might be due to a confounding variable among the former set.
