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
The town lies in a deep bight, inclosed by precipitous cliffs, on the south-western side of the island, whence the sun, by this time long past his midsummer altitude, was not visible at midnight.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
