Time was when the festival's glittering opening night almost invariably meant staple fare by, say, Mozart, Verdi or Richard Strauss.
Time was when a company would indeed generate their own electricity onsite.
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Time was when hot eateries were good candidates for this Forbes list.
Time was when almost every bit of a car, say, was made in one country, from the steel that formed its body to the leather on its seats.
Armstrong told Winfrey that the unraveling of his career is the second time in his life that he could not control his life's narrative -- the last time was when he had cancer.
Time was when you could give audiences a thrill simply by casting young actors in the title roles, but ever since Franco Zeffirelli filmed the sorrowful tale of the star-crossed lovers in 1968, that expedient has come to be taken for granted.
And it was in that context that I was sworn into office almost four years ago, at a time when the banking system was melting down, at a time when -- the month I was sworn in, we lost 800, 000 jobs, the worst crisis since the Great Depression.
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The courts grant a divorce to mark the end of a marriage that was valid when entered into, whereas an annulment is for a marriage that at no time was valid (as when one of the parties was under the age of consent at the time of the marriage).
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There was a time when Facebook was all about breadth: more users all the time.
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There was a time when it was considered a masculine colour: now it is not.
"There was a time when design was sufficient, " says Antonio Calce, Corum's chief executive.
There was a time when she was one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood.
There was a time when Europe was the main arena of global military and commercial competition.
There was a time when IBM was synonymous with the image as a stodgy and rigid old-line technology company.
It was the time when he was interviewing for a full-time faculty position.
There was a time when Ghana was the world's leader in cocoa production.
There was a time when I was six and they taught me to skate on a pond at the Amherst public golf course.
"There was a time when he was untouchable, " Tom Patterson, Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government told CNN in a telephone interview.
There was a time when it was considered necessary and proper to be concerned about possible foreign influences in US government and military service.
There was a time when BP was a significant part of the solar PV industry: certainly for years it was the majority of the UK industry.
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There was a time when Vlasic was inching closer and closer to the world record of Stefka Kostadinova, a mark the Bulgarian has held for more than 25 years.
There was a time when it was hard to enter a NYC taxicab or men's room, or to open a mailbox to mail a letter, without confronting a sticker hawking Henry's latest effort.
And there was a time back when I was covering Congress that that was the mantra of a lot of folks, conservatives in particular, and Republicans, that disclosure was the answer rather than any kind of campaign finance reform restrictions like McCain-Feingold.
While those that argue that it took QE1 5 months to take hold, how can they maintain any form of intellectual honesty in their analysis when the market topped out 5 months after QE2, especially when it was initiated at a time when the market was already in a strong uptrend?
There was a time when all I dreamed of was an offer to join the League, when all I wanted was for the world to think I was special.
When was the last time you heard QNX Neutrino RTOS getting hacked or when was the last time you heard QNX Neutrino RTOS having malware?
Actually, I'd had worked with them from time to time when I was governor of Arkansas.
There was a time when the iPhone was an upstart standing up against the established Blackberry.
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