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
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
In former times British subjects did not qualify for French state help.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2014
In former times, subjects were forbidden under pain of death to study the sciences in foreign lands.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
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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