Example sentences of "america once " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Stars & Stripes now shares a first-place tie with Kanza , America 's sister ship , with four victories apiece in the defenders ' semi-final , and Connor said : ‘ We have to beat America once more to assure that destiny 's in our own hands , but we 're going to keep our feet on the ground . ’ |
| 2 | Just as North America once had no barbed wire dividing the range , neither does eighteenth-century England have any boundaries , excepting mountains and rivers ( and some fortified towns , agricultural ditches and low stone walls ) . |
| 3 | If North Korea is looking for a way out of its nuclear predicament , and a way back into the NPT , China could offer to do what America once did for Taiwan : persuade it to give up its nuclear moonlighting , and take charge of any offending materials and bomb bits . |
| 4 | The ‘ twin pillars ’ of Mr Teicher 's title are Saudi Arabia and the shah 's Iran , the two countries America once thought to turn into the pro-western policemen of the Gulf . |
| 5 | By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) . |