The phrase "as former use" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity in meaning.
Example: "The item is no longer available for as former use in our catalog."
Alternatives: "as previously used" or "as it was used before".
We used a discrete time survival analysis framework to compare the odds of study endpoints occurring within periods of current versus no stimulant use as well as current versus former use.
Use of hormone replacement therapies was defined as never, former use, or current use.
How the hell does a denial of service attack plague reach into the coolest service no-one will ever use, as former user Mike Arrington once put it.
That Maryland law requires "vehicles formerly used for a purpose other than a consumer good shall be clearly and conspicuously identified as to their former use".
Bill Schuck's "Confines" refers poignantly to the estate's former use as a home for orphans.
The rules follow the discovery in April of a Gloucester County day care center whose building was contaminated with mercury from its former use as a thermometer factory.
With 3D translations of frequency readings taken from the human body, Rowena Harris echoes the building's former use as a tuning fork factory.
The next thing to worry about is the works involved to convert the property from it's former use as an annexe to the Greek Embassy.
It is my view that local people would rather the site was returned to its former use as a school, serving the local community, than for residential development".
In some rooms, this has meant leaving old posters and remnants of projection equipment from the building's former use as France's state film school, La Fémis.
