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The phrase "a time gone by" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a past period or era that is no longer present, often evoking nostalgia.
Example: "As I walked through the old neighborhood, memories of a time gone by flooded my mind."
Alternatives: "a bygone era" or "a past time".
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They also reflect a time gone by.
Even his name conjures up images of the dour Midlands and a time gone by.
In many ways, the integrity of which Brand speaks is of a time gone by.
"Now it's a sad, dilapidated memorial to a time gone by".
Tagine is not Rick's Café Américain, but it has many details that recall a time gone by.
Her novels, some semi-autobiographical, beginning with Born in Paradise, published first in 1940, depict a time gone by.
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Fasting is harder in the beginning but a time goes by, it becomes easier.
Just like a smiley face t-shirt, or a set by Carl Cox, the warehouse is an easily identifiable signifier of a time gone by a time we'd all like to think of as perfect.
April 7 2009 Samson Raphaelson's 1934 comedy is an urbane, well-written meditation from a literate time gone by, about a successful writer who is losing the battle between his work and his women.
This is what you don't get with internet research: the joy of paper, the thrill of handling an actual object, a refugee from time gone by.
Lists of the year's biggest stories are attempts at orientation: a topography of time gone by.
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