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
But that constraint contains a possibility: In watching performers of the present embody the dance of the former times, we might feel, in our own bodies, how the present and the past are connected.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022
I noticed that many of the older, stone houses, in ruins now, are built side-on to the sea – protection from the weather taking priority over the spectacular view in former times.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2017
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
