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
Lobster, cooked on a plancha and dripping with smoky pimentòn butter and sherry, is a far cry from the garlic-scented chew toys of former times.
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 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
I noticed that many of the older, stone houses, in ruins now, are built side-on to the sea – protection from the weather taking priority over the spectacular view in former times.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2017
He would stay up until very late, suffocating in his faded velvet vest, scribbling with his tiny sparrow hands, whose rings had lost the glow of former times.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
