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

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

Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood