yesteryear


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Synonyms for yesteryear

a former period of time or of one's life

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Yesteryear currently has 25 outlets, but is expected to break the 35 pub and bar barrier by the start of the festive fortnight.
During the train journey there will be a free prize draw with a chance to win signed and framed prints of railway scenes from yesteryear.
"I've never been one that likes to compare players or eras, especially with the amount of cricket we play in this era compared with yesteryear," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Kallis, as saying.
The Scottish Masters at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow, where the stars of yesteryear aim to prove they have lost none of the skills which made them household names.
And it is his followers of yesteryear who now rule Britain.
A fine period piece, exquisitely capturing a philosophical quandary and transformation as surely as it brings alive the shining yet corruption-ridden American culture of yesteryear.
Profusely illustrated with historic photos and illustrations, readers will be treated to mouth-watering 'yesteryear cuisine' ranging from Mock Macaroni, Sweet Potato Dumplings, and Jam Windmills, to Apple Maple Duck, Coconut Stack Cake, and Apple Dumpling Pie.
This is a rare photograph of a great ship of yesteryear.
Relationship ins and outs are surveyed in chapters packed with colorful photos and illustrations of yesteryear, commenting on the nature of true romance, a relationship's logical progressions, and the power of travel and the kiss.
The event, hailed as the classic show of the north, was organised by Redcar and Cleveland Council, Teesside Yesteryear Motor Club and Middlesbrough and District Motor Club.
I FEEL that Tony Siebenthaler from the Downtown think tank is being a little charitable in his description of the city planners of yesteryear. It is interesting to note that Liverpool's city fathers were highly critical of the design for the Liver Building,belie ving that the edifice was too tall and would dwarf the then recently constructed Port of Liverpool Building.
Entering the gallery one found a replica of the artist (like the Martinez of yesteryear, with fewer tattoos and more hair than he has in the photos) dressed in work clothes and kneeling on the floor, elbows cocked, forearms outstretched, each hand clutching a razor blade and each wrist bearing a diagonal slash.
"Although some may moan the loss of prime office space with picture windows, most admit that the show places of yesteryear no longer meet today's information needs," said Joan L.
Old dance fogeys in my young day were forever saying that dance was in a bad way--you should have seen Diaghilev, they would mutter into their straggly beards--and now, an old dance fogey myself, I am shrewdly aware that I may well be traditionally lamenting the snows that always melt each and every yesteryear. And yet ...
Although by today's standards the policing of yesteryear is now considered draconian in every aspect, it produced results and meant that we could all sleep a lot easier in our beds than we do now.