Sentence examples for formerly there from inspiring English sources

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Formerly there were great tax breaks for investing in film productions to entice foreign and local film production.

Formerly there was a prejudice towards young people; all young children were thought to be drug dealers.

On the international scene, if Europe is (with a few exceptions) no longer the limitlessly fertile ground for movie art that it once was, there are wonderful filmmakers appearing in places where formerly there were few.

They can be read in full in two large volumes of her collected works; formerly there was a selection by Lennox Robinson, a book as irritating as Robinson was himself reputed to be.

One woman, the most freely discursive voyager in the movie, looks at the valley and takes note of the widespread development of well-built houses, where, formerly, there were none, and then reminisces: "When I think of the old days, these times seem better.

The schedule is still a work in progress, but the Rising Stars program, which brings six emerging actors to the festival to network with the filmmakers and executives in attendance, includes several non-Americans this time around; formerly there were none.

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If you're sleeping in the bedroom you slept in as a child, how could you avoid taking on some of the characteristics of the child who formerly slept there?

In 1764, George Keate wrote The Ruins of Netley Abbey, A poem, which showed a romantic appreciation of the ruins and evoked sympathy for the life formerly led there by the monks.

General practitioners are spread more evenly over the country than formerly, when there were many in the richer areas and few in the industrial towns.

But the city, which controls the spot, plans to remove it on Tuesday and replace it with a reproduction of the 19th-century lamppost that formerly stood there.

An old India hand Mr Johnson was formerly based there as a journalist he succeeded in evading Mr Tendulkar's security cordon and delivering the gift to the cricketer's hotel-room.

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