"formerly discussed" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you are referring to something that has been discussed in the past. For example: "The decision to raise tuition fees, formerly discussed at the board meeting, was approved."
This expanded molecular phylogenetic context enabled us to establish a major clade of intestinal gregarine parasites and infer the cellular identities of several previously unidentified environmental SSU rDNA sequences, including several sequences that have formerly been discussed broadly in the literature as a suspected "novel" lineage of eukaryotes.
The relation to formerly proposed models is discussed.
One candidate, PhaZ5 (formerly PhaZ3) has been discussed in previous works ( [York et al.2003]), while PhaZ3 has not been characterized to date.
It's been a little while since we've heard much about Project Ara, but Google wasn't going to let an I/O go by without shedding a little more light on the much discussed (and formerly Moto-centric) modular smartphone platform.
The data in Figure 5 (formerly Figure 4) is now analyzed by cell rather than by animal (as requested in reviewer comment 5), and the potential developmental role for ptrn-1 shown in Figure 5B (formerly 4B) has been discussed in the manuscript.
All were among the 100,000 people at the fourth World Social Forum in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) last week discussing the theme "Another world is possible".
International students should be encouraged to meet with someone in OIS (formerly OISSS) to discuss any I-20 ramifications/extensions and related paperwork- prior to the expiration of their current I-20.
"Everything we're doing in product is made to make this work," says co-founder and CEO David Rodriguez, formerly of Hailo, discussing how CornerJob aims to stave off the risk of heavy-handed competition in the form of messaging giant WhatsApp's own nascent interest in the B2C comms space.
He applauded women like Whitney Cummings, Chelsea Handler and Tina Fey securing a voice to discuss formerly taboo subjects on TV.
