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 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
In former times, subjects were forbidden under pain of death to study the sciences in foreign lands.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
It smells of me, in former times, when I was a mother.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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