former times
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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 that constraint contains a possibility: In watching performers of the present embody the dance of the former times, we might feel, in our own bodies, how the present and the past are connected.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022
The Order takes its name from the symbolic bathing which, in former times, was often part of the preparation of a candidate for knighthood.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2019
In former times, subjects were forbidden under pain of death to study the sciences in foreign lands.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
The locked room, about which the spiritual life of the house revolved in former times, was known from that time on as the “chamberpot room.”
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
