in 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
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 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
"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
The locked room, about which the spiritual life of the house revolved in former times, was known from that time on as the “chamberpot room.”
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
