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

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

Finally, in former times New Guinea’s available root crops were limiting for calories as well as for protein, because they do not grow well at the high elevations where many New Guineans live today.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond