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
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
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
In former times, subjects were forbidden under pain of death to study the sciences in foreign lands.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
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
