"formerly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I am familiar with much of the current literature on child sexual abuse and realize that it is more common than was formerly thought.
- They were formerly thought to have been of marine origin but recent research has cast doubt on this view.
- She had a more ample bottom than he had formerly thought.
- Sometimes these different morphs of a single fungus were formerly thought to be separate species.
- A variety of local studies showed that participation was not as broad based as formerly thought.
- The impostor syndrome was formerly thought to occur primarily in women.
- How did an institution formerly thought to increase the measure of happiness in the world get a reputation for being such a grim affair?
- It was formerly thought to be a reaction to the tuberculum bacillus.
- It now seems probable that there were more churches in late Saxon and early medieval times than was formerly thought.
- There is now evidence that misting the flowers with water, formerly thought to help setting, can in fact be counter-productive.
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