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
In former times British subjects did not qualify for French state help.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 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
These habits of former times appear to me now lavish, decadent almost; immoral, like the orgies of barbarian regimes.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
