former times
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The Order takes its name from the symbolic bathing, which, in former times, was often part of the preparation of a candidate for knighthood.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
In former times, the shop had brought her 25,000 afghanis a month, some $300.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
"The new German power in Europe is not based as in former times on force," writes Beck in German Europe.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
In former times, subjects were forbidden under pain of death to study the sciences in foreign lands.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
