time long past
Example Sentences
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Does it sound like a cynical, gruesome artifact of a time long past?
From Slate • Feb. 13, 2018
I said a prayer for my mom, for my dad, and for everyone who had died there in a time long past.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2017
The sign is one of the last reminders of a time long past, when the railroad attracted human inhabitants to the stretch of high desert that would someday become the largest city in Eastern Oregon.
From Washington Times • May 24, 2015
Here's the synopsis: In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2013
Tea was over, and lock-up time long past, when he stood wet through, excited, breathless, and without cap or jacket, at Dr Rowlands’s door.
From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)