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.