Sentence examples for was formerly before from inspiring English sources

His narrator, Myra, was formerly (before a sex change) Myron, nephew of Buck Loner, a retired horse-opera star.

The name may be familiar to Long Islanders who remember the restaurant by that name that was formerly in Woodbury before closing last winter.

Ant Financial was formerly called Alipay before changing its name last October.

Graham Holdings was formerly called The Washington Post Company, before it sold its flagship newspaper to Jeff Bezos.

The bFGF releasing profile was formerly studied in mice, before such BAM-carrier construct was implanted into the rat's bladder.

It was formerly home to the Travelers Group, before that to Shearson Lehman Hutton, and before that to Shearson/American Express.

The unit was formerly designated as the 36th Engineer Group, and before that as the 36th Engineer Regiment.

Such was Aoki's road to EDM, but different DJs have brought different things to the genre: Skrillex, who like Aoki was formerly in a hardcore band, before morphing into a dubstep DJ; Avicii's uplifting house with pop twist; French electro from David Guetta.

Fortis Insurance Asia was formerly known as Pacific Century Insurance before it was acquired by Fortis Group in 2007.

The company, which in March was rated the best Web Browser-Based Online Broker by Barron's, was formerly known simply as "Ameritrade" before it acquired TD Waterhouse last year.

Madway was formerly a correspondent with Reuters before becoming an executive comms manager at Google from 2011 to 2014, when he joined Instagram.