Example sentences of "once a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | José Berardo has just finished restoring the almost derelict Monte Palace Hotel as a private home , together with the restoration of the lake , with its waterfalls , fountains and water cannons which were once a feature of this Victorian hotel . |
| 2 | By late 1989 the labour force in the Welsh pits , once a quarter of a million men in those proud valleys , had fallen to less than 5,000 . |
| 3 | Bank statements are supplied once a quarter for both accounts . |
| 4 | There was once a hotel in Somerset which proved conclusively that its three stars from the AA and RAC were an indication of facilities , not design standards , . |
| 5 | Of the 80 guests in Bitez , about 30 are dinghy sailors who arrive once a fortnight for a two week holiday . |
| 6 | It 's used once a fortnight for clay pigeon shoots . |
| 7 | Carry out 15–20% water changes once a fortnight with good quality salt . |
| 8 | I asked about feeding , but Bill makes short shrift of this too — once a fortnight with Phostrogen . |
| 9 | Once a fortnight on a Sunday afternoon the girls went to tea with Gran Bristow in the little house that had once been their home . |
| 10 | When Richard was a young man there was reckoned to be a tournament about once a fortnight on the Continent ; in England they were prohibited on the orders of Henry II . |
| 11 | For example , the average frequency of bingeing fell from four or five time a week to once a fortnight at the twelfth session . |
| 12 | Is it me or does the school letter come crawling round once a fortnight at your place ? |
| 13 | Her only public appearance was once a fortnight at the dole . |
| 14 | But throughout the summer , now I , I ought to find out for you exactly how much time in total this does accrue , but we go to Sherburn Library once a fortnight throughout the summer . |
| 15 | Rhoda would open the tin and foil once a week or at least once a fortnight before Christmas to soak the cloth with more bourbon before resealing it . |
| 16 | Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year . |
| 17 | ‘ We walked and walked … and I kept dropping hints , but there was never once a response from the Queen . |
| 18 | Just once a couple of tears rolled down . |
| 19 | The people who were once a minority in the Labour party now represent the views of the majority . |
| 20 | The area around Brimscombe was once a hive of industry , with numerous mills . |
| 21 | Brimscombe Port was once a hive of activity but has now largely disappeared . |
| 22 | The old school serves as a village hall while the church institute , once a hive of activity , is little in demand . |
| 23 | In karate , once a grasp of workable techniques have been thoroughly practised . |
| 24 | This tiny hamlet , which has less than 100 inhabitants , was once a stopping-off-point on the pilgrim route and the church , though restored from a state of picturesque dilapidation early in this century , is still rough-and-ready twelfth-century , squat in shape and only about twenty yards long from doorway to apse . |
| 25 | Once a casualty of war itself , now occupied by the peace keepers . |
| 26 | Does the brain use all of this information , or does it work on a trigger basis so that , once a level of activity has been exceeded , the actual level is irrelevant ? |
| 27 | They are at once a replication of and a threat to the unitary governing structures of the society in which he lives . |
| 28 | Once a shoal of respectable dace are attracted in by your feeding , the sprats and minnows will be shouldered out . |
| 29 | Once a depth of 1.5 metres is exceeded , the Solution enters into dive mode and displays the no-decompression time available , current depth , elapsed dive time and water temperature . |
| 30 | Wilsonville , Oregon-base Mentor Graphics Inc , once a high-flyer in the CAD world , has just posted second quarter losses of $6.9m . |