Sentence examples for formers will be from inspiring English sources

This gathering of politicians, business leaders, civil servants and opinion formers will be able to agree that London's position as a top destination for inward investment owes much to EU membership, and that Britain would be taking a big risk if it signalled it was on a glide path out of the EU.

The former will be pricey and may go down as too show-offy by half.

The former will be in wider distribution than the latter because it matches the apparel better.

One might lose track of either a paper notebook or a 3.5-inch diskette from the early 1990s, but upon retrieval, the former will be easier to read.

After reading "Mr. Peanut," you very much hope that the former will be strong enough to prevail in the final confrontation with the latter.

In most cases the former will be you, while the latter - who has responsibility for signing your company's financial report - will be a spouse or a friend.

The former will be a southern hemisphere back, the latter a forward; stick them in alongside Jack Lam and Soane Tonga'uiha and any hint of a soft Bristolian underbelly will swiftly disappear.

Those who believe the former will be buoyed by a new study, published in the Lancet medical journal on Tuesday, which attracted excited news coverage.

The former will be a warm favourite to follow up an easy course win last month and the latter should prove too good in the concluding novice hurdle.

When they shoot a film, the framings of the former will be airy and fluid (Rossellini); those of the latter, tight to the millimeter (Hitchcock) ….

If the markets remain wobbly the former will be hard, while the telecoms industry is in disarray the most recent airwaves auction failed.Spending, meanwhile, will remain constant relative to GDP.