former times
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A quarter of salt was commonly sold for thirty-five shillings, which in former times was quite unheard of.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In former times, the shop had brought her 25,000 afghanis a month, some $300.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
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
These habits of former times appear to me now lavish, decadent almost; immoral, like the orgies of barbarian regimes.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
