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
In former times British subjects did not qualify for French state help.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2014
In former times, subjects were forbidden under pain of death to study the sciences in foreign lands.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
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
