former times
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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 citizens of planet earth in former times could only imagine what we are able to see with our own eyes.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2014
In former times British subjects did not qualify for French state help.
From BBC • Jun. 21, 2014
In former times they would send you a little package, of the belongings: what he had with him when he died.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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