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adv. (translation only)
Usage examples of "in the past".
He played his part of bravo in the past, following the line of least resistance, butchering others in his own defence: to-day, grown elderly and heavy, a convert, a reader of the Bible, perhaps a penitent, conscious at least of accumulated hatreds, and his memory charged with images of violence and blood, he capitulates to the Old Men, fuddles himself with opium, and sits among his guards in dreadful expectation.
He had done all manner of clever things involving synthetics and crystals and such in the past.
Of all the decisions she had had to make in the past six months, why did this small, impermanent one cause her such difficulty?
And I have said nothing of them because they are conditions common to both epochs, and even more efficient in the past than in the present.
One was from the insurance company, and the name was probably the only detail they'd managed to get right in the past year.
After all, I owned half of the Woof & Warp, his arts-and-crafts shop, and had sacked out in the back room in the past.
That made three times the town had changed hands in the past year.
He had faced guns innumerable times in the past and did not find them intimidating.
I am working on the problem, trying to find the true story of the Old Woman and the Fendles, for this horror we are living through now is rooted, not in the present, but in the past.