Sentence examples for formerly better from inspiring English sources

There has been a headlong rush to open restaurants in an area formerly better known for its motorcycle gangs.

Of the 437 realty agencies in the county, 69 last year -- or almost 16percentt -- were franchisees: Century 21 had 22 offices in Westchester County; GMAC (formerly Better Homes and Gardens), 16; Prudential, 14; Coldwell Banker, 8; ERA, 5; and Re/Max, 4, according to the Board of Realtors' roster.

But now suppose we can effect a change that will make the better off person worse off without making anyone else better off, and without making it the case that the formerly better off person is now worse off.

If we can effect a change, perhaps by transferring resources, that will make the worse off person better off and make the better off person worse off, provided the change does not bring it about that the formerly better off person is now worse off, the change will bring the people closer to being equally well off.

Since 2008, however, Bonsucro – formerly the Better Sugarcane Initiative, supported by WWF – has been courting a more mainstream market.

Formerly, that better price had to be at least one-sixteenth higher than the crossing price, and the exchange could propose making that margin a nickel.

Nowadays the borrowers in a boatload of trouble and months behind in their mortgages formerly had better-than-decent credit, good jobs, and 20% or more money to put down (or a great deal of equity in their homes).

Both she and the police say the shooting stemmed from a continuing turf war between the projects: the Beach 41st Street Houses and the Ocean Bay Houses, formerly and still better known as the Edgemere Houses.

And he said restoring formerly mined land brings "better vegetation, better habitat for wildlife," and that "there's more wildlife on the reclaimed mined lands in Wyoming than there are on the original lands".

EPP was formerly thought to produce better survival than pleurectomy and decortication (P/D) but as more evidence accumulates P/D actually may offer a better survival.

Even people who have driven over it countless times would be hard pressed to draw a diagram of the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge — formerly and perhaps still better known as the Triborough.