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
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 this would have been considered baby talk.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2011
Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
