Sentence examples of "in former times" in English
In former days people walked from Edo to Kyoto.
Autrefois, les gens marchaient de Edo jusqu'à Kyoto.
Since graduation fifteen years ago I have never run into my former classmates.
Je n'ai pas revu mes camarades de classe depuis que j'ai eu mon diplôme il y a 15 ans.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Le problème aujourd'hui, c'est que l'avenir n'est plus ce qu'il était.
Bombay is the former name of Mumbai and was given to it by the English.
Bombay est l'ancien nom de Mumbai et lui avait été donné par les Anglais.
He could not help seeing that you were about five times as pretty as every other woman in the room.
Il ne pouvait s'empêcher de voir que tu étais à peu près cinq fois plus jolie que toutes les autres femmes dans la pièce.
The newly promoted junior manager, drunk with power, lorded it over his former co-workers.
Le jeune dirigeant nouvellement promu, ivre de pouvoir, jouait les hobereaux à l'égard de ses anciens collègues.
The former is inferior to the latter in some respect.
Le précédent est inférieur au suivant par certains aspects.
When I met my former teacher, he inquired after my parents.
Quand j'ai rencontré mon ancien professeur, il m'a demandé comment allaient mes parents.
Of these two opinions, I prefer the latter to the former.
De ces deux opinions, je préfère la deuxième à la première.
I've asked him three times to take out the trash and he still hasn't done it!
Je lui ai demandé trois fois de sortir les ordures et il ne l'a toujours pas fait !
That was such good a book that I read it three times.
C'était un livre tellement bien que je l'ai lu trois fois.
Practice is as important as theory, but we are apt to value the latter and despise the former.
La pratique est aussi importante que la théorie, mais nous sommes enclin à estimer la dernière et dédaigner la première.
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