по тем временам

• ПО ТЕМ ВРЕМЕНАМ{{}}

[PrepP; Invar; adv; fixed WO]

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⇒ pertaining to standards, points of view, customs etc characteristic of a certain period (in the life of a people, state etc):

- for those times <days>;

- by the standards of the time(s).

     ♦ Тридцать рублей в месяц как комендант Цика и столько же как участник ансамоля - неплохие деньги по тем временам, прямо-таки хорошие деньги... (Искандер 3). Thirty rubles a month as superintendent at the CEC, and as much again as a member of the ensemble-not bad money for those times, downright decent money... (3a).

     ♦ ...Центр Магадана выглядел вполне благопристойно, даже по тем временам шикарно... (Аксёнов 6). The center of Magadan...looked thoroughly respectable, and indeed, by the standards of the time, quite splendid... (6a).