in times gone by
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A couple of weeks ago, I suggested on Twitter that in times gone by, it would have been sorted very quickly, not necessarily in a conciliatory fashion but effectively for all that, by Peter Willey.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2012
He found its art too constricting and esoteric; he longed for an art that could be shared by a whole community, much as the Italian frescoes had once been shared in times gone by.
From Time Magazine Archive
Newspaper notoriety is not sought, and men cannot "work the Press," as in times gone by, to attain a fictitious reputation.
From Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police by George Dilnot
No one doubted these things and they had been abundantly written about in times gone by.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
The thing, or most of it, was an unanswerable challenge to the coldest wind of night—the cast-off raiment of full fifty little sables, that scoured the Russian woods in times gone by.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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