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)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)
