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 these women are now middle-aged like him, without the carefree gaiety of former times: their reaction to his reappearance is complicated and without the affectionate submission that he might secretly have hoped for.
From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2016
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 • Jul. 31, 2016
The distribution of continents in former times is much less neatly resolved than most people outside geophysics think.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
