Example sentences of "once but [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem to have evolved not once but many times . |
| 2 | Breeze O'Brien , laden with parcels of all shapes and sizes , and further hampered by an enormous umbrella , came into violent collision , not once but many times , during her headlong dash up the hill . |
| 3 | Just for a moment , suppose that it had been proved beyond doubt that reincarnation was a fact and we all lived not just once but many times . |
| 4 | He dipped the flannel in the water and bathed the swollen joint not once but many times , leaving the flannel wrapped around it for long seconds each time . |
| 5 | And he owed Duncan a favour , not once but many times over . |
| 6 | They had seen her lover , not once but many times , in the pubs and the clubs , chatting up girls . |
| 7 | The origin of life on a planet can be a very improbable event indeed by our everyday standards , or indeed by the standards of the chemistry laboratory , and still be sufficiently probable to have occurred , not just once but many times , all over the universe . |
| 8 | And all the time the snow fell ; not once but many times , scooped up by the wind and hurled back in huge opaque whirlpools that obliterated even the pencil lines . |
| 9 | ‘ Not once but several times , ’ he added . |
| 10 | We do n't know , and that happened not once but several times , leading to er er er a good ne honest professional members of the lottery commission er to warn in internal memos er that this was going to raise legal and public relations problems . |