Example sentences of "than once [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In herbivores particularly , but also in most animals and babies , defecation takes place more than once per day . |
| 2 | Every goalkicker hits a periodic trough and more than once over the last 12 months ‘ Noddy ’ has been within one unsuccessful kick of handing over to the New South Wales fullback Marty Roebuck . |
| 3 | Father got it more than once over the years . |
| 4 | The analogy has been drawn more than once between the hacker and the dedicated musician . |
| 5 | Like the Vicar of Bray , political survivors in Eastern Europe know how to subordinate their policy interests to their own personal cause : venerable figures such as Novotný and Husák of Czechoslovakia , and Olszowski of Poland have migrated more than once between hardliners and soft . |
| 6 | It was this force which the Collector now threw into the engagement , though he had to shout the order more than once as their leader , Judge Adams , was rather deaf . |
| 7 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But his thoughts had not turned to his business dealings with Klein more than once during the journey . |
| 11 | The tracker had ridden ahead more than once during the day , and to the rear and flanks also , though Riven could not imagine them being followed in cold such as this . |
| 12 | ‘ You know exactly what I mean , ’ she reproved , too aware that her pleasure in the music had been mirrored on her face more than once during their tour of the nightspots to be able to disavow her delight in the entertainment . |
| 13 | Was this what love led to , McAllister thought more than once during the long afternoon : this agony , this terrible suffering ? |
| 14 | Some areas are viewed more than once during this 16-day repeat cycle because they lie in an area of overlap between adjacent orbits . |
| 15 | If PF1/4 is pressed more than once during a single LIFESPAN log on session , all the requests will be directed to one copy of FORM.LST , which can then be printed after you have returned to VMS . |
| 16 | Not a bad idea to remind them of this more than once during the development of an estate ; and remember , acting for either seller or buyer , that on the granting of a long lease of a flat a plan is essential . |
| 17 | On further thought it is soon evident that it is not as easy as that , because the same people are not at church every week , some come more than once on Sunday and will , therefore , be counted twice , and there is an attendance fluctuation depending on the state of the weather and the time of year ! |
| 18 | This figure will be inflated by those who have attended more than once on a Sunday , but , provided that church-going habits do not change , you will still have an accurate trend measure over a number of years , which is our primary interest . |
| 19 | I 've been seriously caught out more than once on early ambitious trips — the ice axe which nearly stayed at home was worth its weight in gold . |
| 20 | The Bax and Bantock have been reissued more than once on LP , but neither has ever sounded so well as on the present reissue . |
| 21 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 22 | He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town . |
| 23 | She refused to marry the first husband proposed by her father , and ran away more than once with lovers of her own choosing ; when she came home pregnant she was sold off with a dowry to a plumber called William Wright . |
| 24 | In the case of 44% , it only happened once ; for 29% it happened more than once with the same person ; for 19% there were three or more different people on separate occasions . |
| 25 | Whether the program will be used more than once with this class . |
| 26 | He thought more than once of Antwerp as a possible bolt-hole . |
| 27 | It may be based as Connelly v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1964 ] A.C. 1254 itself was , on the allegation that the defendant is being prosecuted more than once for what is in effect the same offence . |
| 28 | As the same melody is used more than once for different words , no kind of ‘ word painting ’ can take place , for the notes which may be used for joy in one verse may be needed for melancholy in another . |
| 29 | may have been enrolled more than once for the module |
| 30 | As they talked , they came back more than once to the mystery of the three files which Derek had been shown . |