Example sentences of "once [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bond business empire was once worth about £3.5 billion . |
| 2 | Anyway , surely two professional people , both chartered accountants and married to each other , should be able to live in a house that was once worth £425,000 . |
| 3 | The bungalow , guarded by video cameras and electronic security gates , was once worth £250,000 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Actually , I did n't go to the hairdresser once during the five months I was in Private Lives and my hair became healthier from not being subjected to heated rollers or setting lotion . |
| 6 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 7 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 8 | However , the success of societies in winning back a bigger market share of mortgage business from the banks was highlighted by the increase in gross home loan advances to £4,157million , a figure topped only once during 1989 . |
| 9 | Dot had worn hers once during a practice . |
| 10 | Agostini , indeed , surfaced only once during fieldwork , in the form of a photocopy of the map of tribes and their landholdings in the Ajdabiya region . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , Rebello will only perform once during the series ( in tandem with the singer Jocelyn Brown ) , although Artrageous ! apparently intends to spend more time covering demanding music like opera and jazz than pop or rock . |
| 12 | But we were surprised that not once during our visit were the words ‘ land reform ’ so much as mentioned , although what has happened there most certainly counts as this , and would have been of interest to the World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development held by FAO in 1979 . |
| 13 | Remembering where Tweed had stayed once during a desperate operation in the past . |
| 14 | Tom only missed the Postage Stamp green once during the tournament , and then he chipped up stone dead . |
| 15 | One example will suffice ; Walpole-Bond records , with reference to Wheatears , that during the period from the final years of the 18th to the early ones of the 19th centuries an inhabitant of East Dean ‘ once during that short time was thought to have taken nearly a hundred dozen ’ , and another ‘ near Eastbourne procured eighty-four dozen in the same short space of time ’ . |
| 16 | That said , not once during his long wait did he let himself get too downhearted . |
| 17 | As I said more than once during this review , I keep forgetting that what I have in my hands is a £300 Korean-made guitar , not one costing three times as much . |
| 18 | Once during its composition I wrote to her : |
| 19 | Alternatively on the ‘ count ’ Sundays you can ask people to register their attendance by placing a disc in a box just once during the day . |
| 20 | Weight and simplicity of loading are also strong points ( the machine did n't jam once during testing ) . |
| 21 | For most women , ovulation usually takes place once during each menstrual cycle . |
| 22 | She never glanced up once during the entire lesson . |
| 23 | AN ORGY of steam traction comes to Dorset on the weekend of September 19 and 20 with history being made as six locomotives steam at once during a special fund-raising Grand Steam Gala — the most locos ever seen in the Isle of Purbeck . |
| 24 | Once during rectification of a fault his team located the problem as being due to broken wires in a cable loom which ran through the communications tunnel . |
| 25 | Only once during the dispute did I hear the woman worker 's point of view publicly debated . |
| 26 | Each piece of mushroom can be used once during the game . |
| 27 | The Pact 's supreme political organ , the PKK , although required to meet twice yearly , did not meet once during the Bloc 's most crisis prone periods : 1956–58 , nor between March 1968 and March 1969 . |
| 28 | Speedier technological change will increase the need for most people to retrain at least once during their working life , which should mean more jobs for teachers of all sorts . |
| 29 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 30 | Turn the gammon over once during cooking . |