former times
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A quarter of salt was commonly sold for thirty-five shillings, which in former times was quite unheard of.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
In former times, the shop had brought her 25,000 afghanis a month, some $300.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Lobster, cooked on a plancha and dripping with smoky pimentòn butter and sherry, is a far cry from the garlic-scented chew toys of former times.
From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2022
In former times British subjects did not qualify for French state help.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2014
The locked room, about which the spiritual life of the house revolved in former times, was known from that time on as the “chamberpot room.”
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
