Sentence examples for formal usage from inspiring English sources

In formal usage, eons are the longest portions of geologic time (eras are the second-longest).

The construction "forbid from doing something" is widespread, but in formal usage "forbid to" is still preferred: forbid, prohibit.

It is the preferred form for formal usage, and Google's Ngram-viewer tool (which allows searches of books) finds "it was him who…" to be almost non-existent in books.What's correct?

The proper designation as used by the International Astronomical Union on its IAU Circulars, and the formal usage of professional scientists in the refereed astronomical literature, is "Comet C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)", though many people have referred to it popularly as "Comet Hale-Bopp".

For both imprinting and addressing cards, "Mr. and Mrs. John Grotts" is considered formal usage; "Lisa and John Grotts" is informal.

The 2008 List of Banished Words restored "truthiness" to formal usage, in response to the 2007-2008 Writerstriked of America strike.

When Parliament is referred to in some formal usages, all three institutions are included.

Flemming's verifiability and validity criteria need a little explanation, because the terms used are easily confused with formal usages and so are a little misleading.

A conventional usage, as epitomized by Max Weber's analysis of modern bureaucracy, highlights legal-rational authority in a formal organization.

It suggests that expanding health insurance in Indonesia, as is the current policy thrust, will have a stronger impact on increasing formal care usage rates among the poor.

Frequency of use does not determine crossover from informal (or colloquial) to formal (or standard) usage.