Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] upon a " in BNC.

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1 VFM auditing is not new , and in many ways Britain is now only explicitly upon a path that other countries have already followed .
2 Effective communication of the gospel depends not only upon a thorough understanding of the content of the message , but also on an ability to relate that message to the contemporary situation .
3 No , I fucking once upon a time I used to be able to do it .
4 Good roads , canals and navigable rivers , by diminishing the expense of carriage , put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those in the neighbourhood of the town .
5 Now once upon a time , there was a railway .
6 In a handbill of 1818 the cotton weavers looked back to earnings of 15s 9d ( 78p ) a week in 1802 – 3 , which had been " pretty near upon a par with other Mechanicks and we maintained our rank in Society " .
7 She had played beautifully once upon a time , and even now , although she had been compelled to give it up almost entirely , it was a joy to listen to her .
8 I quietly let myself out of the flat and ran down the stairs coming too quickly upon a crumpled heap hunched at the bottom .
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