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The phrase "a simpler time to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a past period that is perceived as less complicated or more straightforward compared to the present.
Example: "Looking back at my childhood, I often think of it as a simpler time to grow up, free from the pressures of adult life."
Alternatives: "an easier time to" or "a more straightforward time to".
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It was a simpler time, to coin a phrase.
Ah t'was a simpler time, to be certain.
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Allsburg uses this supposedly simpler time to tell a supposedly simple tale of a boy who builds a hypnosis machine.
That longing for a simpler time seems to have tempered Mr. Korf's style, which in the past has yielded works with a harder, more dissonant edge.
IN a simpler time, carmakers came to auto shows simply to dazzle the public with their latest, sleekest designs.
I send them to a technology-free camp in Vermont not because I want to go back to a simpler time, but because I want them to know how to.
"If sports went back to a simpler time, maybe the coverage would to," Mr. Morton said.
Perhaps the answer lies not in going back to a simpler time, but in moving forward to games of even greater complexity.
I walked down the wash, my mind drifting back to a simpler time, found the car and drove to another site in the park.
It brings me back to a simpler time, when it was actually popular to think that video games turned kids into killers.
Watch this '90s clip to go back to a simpler time when Louis C.K. was younger, goatee-less and toilet art could be something beautiful.
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