The phrase "a former version" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an earlier iteration or edition of something, such as a document, software, or product.
Example: "The new software update has many improvements compared to a former version that had several bugs."
Alternatives: "an earlier version" or "a previous version".
Maybe he could take some words of advice from a former version of himself?
"I was, of course, full of the kind of mortification that is part and parcel with meeting a former version of yourself, a woefully misguided girl desperate to be embraced by even the least exemplary specimens of young American malehood," wrote Dunham.
I'm looking around the room and I notice that everyone in it looks like someone — and when I try to figure out exactly who that someone is, it turns out to be a former version of herself, a thinner version or a healthier version or a pre-plastic-surgery version or a taller version.
A new version of frequency doubling perimetry was compared to a former version in patients with glaucoma.
* A former version of this story incorrectly reported that Jerome Heppelmann began managing the aforementioned funds in 1997.
That meant data that had been stored in a former version of the site was now public domain.
This new manuscript version is a great improvement over the former version.
Compared with the 2D fingerprint similarity model built in SPORCalc (former version of MetaPrint2D) [43], an exact match operator was introduced to establish the fingerprint similarity model in our method.
We wish to thank Dr. Mark Clarke (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) for the extensive and valuable revision of a former, larger version of the paper.
The former version of the microhand was a 3-prismatic revolute spherical (PRS) parallel mechanism, while the current mechanism has a 3-prismatic revolute spherical(PRS) structure, which is smaller and more rigid.
A previous version incorrectly identified former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson.
