And she called me by a name I hadn't used in a very long time.

Would I still be using it in six months' time?

It probably started being used in a time when not many people could read.

The strategy is most often used in difficult economic times.

It clearly hadn't been used in a long time, if ever.

However the term is no longer used in modern times.

People haven't used public sector services in a long time.

As such only the latter was used in former times.

These would have been heavily used in times gone by.

But for all that, she is a woman; and some man has used her ill in recent times.