Sentence examples for formers would be from inspiring English sources

The median size of initial formed crystals is inversely related to relative supersaturation, therefore, the initially formed urinary crystallites in stone formers would be smaller than that in healthy controls.

The former would be hard.

The former would be of dubious propriety, and the latter of doubtful practicality.

At 26D, "Former model is going to weave," I assumed "former" would be EX as usual.

The former would be binding only on the EU as a whole.

The point of the former would be to force the Republicans to be the ones who say "No".

If diplomats spent too much time with dissidents, the former would be expelled and the latter jailed.

The former would be a "semi-colonial relationship", says Brown, Scotland using a currency shaped by officials in faraway London.

The former would be signed in the coming days or weeks, probably in Kiev; the latter would be left to an unspecified future date.

(In other words, in a chamber containing both elected and nominated members the former would be tempted to claim greater legitimacy than the latter).

That the former would be part of a military strategy does not matter to them as it would to the humanitarian.