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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Forget the promotional toasters and blenders of yesteryear .
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Joiners of yesteryear had their names stamped on their wooden planes and saw handles.
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Operating rooms come equipped with lasers and computers, not just the scalpels and saws of yesteryear .
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Snow from the mountains were used to make the sherbets of yesteryear , but nowadays we have freezers.
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The records of yesteryear and some older memories suggest Colin Booth was also a quite exceptional golfer.
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Today the parliaments of the Arab states seem to take themselves for the caliphal palaces of yesteryear .
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We are often told that the politicians of yesteryear were greater figures than the politicians of today.