Example sentences of "than once " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you can afford to , it 's generally best to spread your auditions around the drama schools so that you are seen more than once . |
| 2 | And of those that do , few will try them more than once or twice . |
| 3 | More than once . |
| 4 | You 're a fucking crusader ! had been yelled at her more than once . |
| 5 | To stir up mischief , no doubt , and to eye Jean Bruce , the blacksmith 's daughter — they had been seen strolling about in the gloaming more than once , laughing quietly together and holding hands . |
| 6 | This perception is picked up later , more than once , as Tate moves through the poem : ‘ subtly and imperceptibly the rhythm has changed … ’ , ‘ there is constant and sudden change of rhythm … ’ , ‘ a broken and distracted rhythm ’ . |
| 7 | By 11 , the majority of children were hit less than once a month or never . |
| 8 | More than once , right-wing union leaders have been left fuming in their seats as a stream of party activists were called to the rostrum . |
| 9 | Midani , the wealthy Lebanese who had always believed that he had first option should Edwards ever decide to sell , after trying to buy the club himself , insisted more than once : ‘ United must not be caused embarassment , ’ and seemed to be the one participant in what became an increasingly shabby affair who was conscious that great dignity was at stake . |
| 10 | More than once he was sadly mistaken and duly disappointed with the human material at hand ; nonetheless , he succeeded in transforming an almost dormant pre-1939 Law School at University College , London , into a flourishing and internationally leading Law Faculty . |
| 11 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 12 | There were several riots , and local Ethiopian troops opened fire more than once to quell the angry refugees . |
| 13 | Of course , there are other situations when the toughness that accompanies the Rambo self-image is useful in disarming trouble-makers and preventing further crime , as happened more than once during field-work . |
| 14 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 15 | Overwhelmed by water , Charlie Mears , the London bank-clerkcum-Greek-galley-slave met his death by water more than once . |
| 16 | Pearce nevertheless made a point of visiting every single British Aerospace factory at one time or another during his seven years as chairman , some of them more than once . |
| 17 | But if they came more than once their friends usually sent them home . |
| 18 | Very lean red meat , small portion , no more than once daily |
| 19 | In herbivores particularly , but also in most animals and babies , defecation takes place more than once per day . |
| 20 | He is the new Director of Anglican Renewal Ministries and successor to Lawrence Hoyle who has preached for us more than once . |
| 21 | Perhaps the fiddle sheet did n't run to outside entertainment more than once a month . |
| 22 | Shivering the night away in the reeking darkness of the tunnels , he had asked himself this question more than once . |
| 23 | He wondered , more than once , why he did n't just turn round and go home . |
| 24 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 25 | You will succumb to temptation , and probably more than once . |
| 26 | In the twenty-two years since Ian Paisley had campaigned for Kilfedder in West Belfast , the world had been turned upside down more than once and the three men had crossed and re-crossed each other , like figures in a bizarre dance . |
| 27 | More than once this has been printed on the programme as ‘ coming to terms with your own immortality ’ . |
| 28 | Once the horse has been hurt , especially if the horse has been hurt more than once , the horse forms the bad habit in response to its fear of pain , and removing the pain does not remove the fear of pain . |
| 29 | Poindexter tried , more than once , to take North off the contra account , but North fought back with all the tactics — bureaucratic manoeuvres , leaks to the press , heartbreaking petitions — of which he was capable . |
| 30 | I confess that more than once I came near to tears , eyes as misted as the beautiful stage setting of Günther Schneider-Siemssen . |