Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it once [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , AT&T 's labour-relations department has less influence than it once did , before decentralisation swept the company . |
| 2 | If so , training has been downgraded by the Cabinet and has less priority than it once had . |
| 3 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 4 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 5 | But somehow the invitation no longer holds the same enticing mystery as it once did . |
| 6 | A decision to save by building up money balances no longer carries with it the high opportunity cost that it once did . |