"once formerly" is not a correct phrase to use in written English.
It is redundant and does not add any meaning to the sentence. Instead of "once formerly," you could use "previously" or "formerly" to convey the same idea. Example: Incorrect: Once formerly, I used to play soccer every day. Correct: Previously, I used to play soccer every day.
One group not taking part in the maneuvering is the once-feared and formerly all-powerful military.
Formerly oppressed groups, once-despised minorities, and the foreign-born, along with wife-beaters and ex-drug dealers, all have a shot at the top in a society that is much less equal and much more free than the one most of us grew up in.
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian (formerly the Museum of Navaho Ceremonial Art), once part of the Laboratory of Anthropology, is privately endowed.
Mr. Robins is leading an ambitious effort to revitalize the formerly woebegone district, once plagued by muggings and burglaries.
Karşıyaka (formerly Kordelia) district, once a separate town across the gulf from central İzmir, now constitutes the northwestern extent of the city.
The northern plain is a drained basin that formerly contained Lake Kopaīs, once the largest lake in Greece, and now a fertile plain growing cereals and cotton and supporting pedigreed cattle.
The formerly defiant Lance Armstrong once said, "As long as I live, I will deny ever doping," but sitting face to face with Oprah Winfrey in an interview that was broadcast Thursday, he reversed course.
The politics of mail isn't new in this formerly bohemian community, once home to Upton Sinclair and Robinson Jeffers and today better known as the hideaway of Doris Day, Kim Novak and the football announcer John Madden.
Anxious times Mixed signals Scorpions stung ReprintsUnrest is rising in the far south, too, where resentment simmers over alleged discrimination since formerly separate South Yemen (once the British colony of Aden plus an outlying British protectorate of emirates) united with the more populous north in 1990.
