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Example sentences for: former

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And after Schering-Plough donated $1 million to former surgeon general C. Everett Koop's foundation, Koop wrote letters to his contacts in Congress arguing on the company's behalf.
Also, the fact that the four former programs expired over a year ago and the temporary authority expired 8 months previously seems to make a further delay of 60 days of small consequence.
The former leads with the latest NASA news.
' Since the machine is not, as generally believed in former years, a new kind of calculator but rather a high-speed symbol manipulator, ordinateur hits the mark.
Meanwhile, though, the FBI filed charges against former Texaco executive Richard Lundwall, in what many saw as a maneuver to pressure him for new leads in the evidence-destruction criminal case against Texaco.