раньше(+ verb • My son's lunch used to consist of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich but he's not allowed that now because of peanut allergies in his class. • Regular job workers were never considered the middle class but that's just semantics. You are absolutely right, working class people used to be able to afford a house and now everywhere in the Western world things are getting dire. I blame globalization and our love for cheap crap from China. All of our manufacturing jobs went to China and it left us only really with services. (Reddit) • Traffic used to start at 4:30pm. It now starts at 2pm. It is a higher problem. Just build build build money money money with no thought to infrastructure. (vancouversun.com)ART Vancouver)
раньше было(I don't play golf now, but I used to. Val_Ships); раньше(I used to enjoy gardening, but I don't have time for it now. Val_Ships); прежде(There used not to be so much violence. Val_Ships); одно время(I didn't use to like him, but now we're good friends. Val_Ships); когда-то(раньше что-то происходило • valleys where rivers used to run – долины, где когда-то текли рекиVal_Ships)
