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The phrase "the former number" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
Typically, the phrase "the former number" is used when referring to something that existed in the past, but is no longer present. For example, "We used to serve 450 customers each day, but that number has decreased significantly since then; the former number is now just 300."
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She reacted to one successful point by giving the former number one the thumbs up.
force of office workers and investigators is now 600, or about three times the former number.
Q: And what about Godric Smith, the former Number 10 spin doctor?
As for his strike force, he's just added Danny Mwange from Portland, hoping to finally coax the potential out of the former number one draft pick.
Widely portrayed as the villain of the Iraq debacle, the former Number 10 director of communications (1997-2003) has continued to insist he did nothing wrong.
Temerko is the former number two at oil company Yukos and successfully won the right to stay in the UK in 2005 after a judge found Russia's attempt to extradite him on fraud charges was politically motivated.
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The scandal broke in January when the Italian journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi broadcast letters from the former number-two Vatican administrator, Monsignor Carlo Maria Viganò, to the pope.
But the former numbers runner had an appetite for the high-stakes gamble.
In the same interview, the former number-two man at the CIA stated that he is convinced that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has already made a decision to acquire nuclear weapons capability, most probably through an undetected covert program.
Every integer is either of the form (2 × ▢) + 0 or the former numbers are even and the latter are odd.
The assets sale at Nokia, the world's former number one mobile maker, continues.
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