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
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. 6, 2019
"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
Those humble replicas of the revelry of former times served to show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a masterful carouser had dried up.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
