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In former times, the shop had brought her 25,000 afghanis a month, some $300.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022

But these women are now middle-aged like him, without the carefree gaiety of former times: their reaction to his reappearance is complicated and without the affectionate submission that he might secretly have hoped for.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 10, 2016

The citizens of planet earth in former times could only imagine what we are able to see with our own eyes.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2014

In former times British subjects did not qualify for French state help.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2014

In former times they would send you a little package, of the belongings: what he had with him when he died.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood


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