English ⇄ Russian

in years gone by stresses
busin.	прошедшие годы
lit.	в былые годы ("Then all the old hands remembered that a certain dry mead, into which a few of the cows had been admitted of late, had, in years gone by, spoilt the butter in the same way." Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy aldrignedigen); в прежние годы ("Then all the old hands remembered that a certain dry mead, into which a few of the cows had been admitted of late, had, in years gone by, spoilt the butter in the same way." Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy aldrignedigen)