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
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 • Jul. 31, 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, subjects were forbidden under pain of death to study the sciences in foreign lands.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Those humble replicas of the revelry of former times served to show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a masterful carouser had dried up.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
