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Discover Ludwig"formerly were" is not a correct phrase in written English.
Instead, you would use the phrase "were formerly" or "used to be". For example: "The library, which used to be open 24 hours a day, now has limited hours." or "The building were formerly a hospital, but now it's a school."
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Grocery stores that formerly were open around the clock, close at 5pm.
The puzzles formerly were made on wood and were more expensive.
There are only situations, good, bad or what the Nets formerly were, unbearably ugly.
Bar machines formerly were called screw machines, and they may be either hand controlled or automatic.
(They formerly were called Lapps, a term they now consider somewhat derogatory).
In recent years, some colleges that formerly were need-blind have begun to take an applicant's financial circumstances into account.
The four Kiowa-Tanoan languages are spoken in New Mexico, Arizona, and Oklahoma and formerly were also spoken in Texas.
Printing and brewing formerly were well-established industries in Edinburgh and Glasgow but are now in decline.
Limbs which formerly were supple enough to sustain the most vigorous sexual calisthenics were now warped and in need of damp-proofing.
"The key thing is, people who formerly were being incarcerated are now getting treatment," Mr. Zimmerman said, so the criminal justice system is being forced to change.
Trusses formerly were principally of wood and were used to cover masonry as well as framed structures, even when these were vaulted.
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