old days
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The orchestra plays Mozart’s score as though it were, as orchestras did in the old days, accompanying a silent movie but to radically different effect.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Moffett said that, in the old days, television channels didn’t have to worry about irking customers with rising costs, because that relationship was handled by a middleman — the cable companies.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
"Or when we first started working in the village shop back in the old days, we maybe swapped a few shifts, but in a professional capacity we don't."
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Just like in the old days, travel agents work on commissions from hotels, cruises and tour companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
In old days she would, I am sure, have noticed, no matter how we might have tried to conceal it; but in this way she is greatly changed during the past three weeks.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
