Example sentences of "once a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the eastern end of a three mile seafront lies the Old Town — once a small fishing village and later a major Cinque Port . |
| 2 | There was once a small water mill at Low Catton . |
| 3 | It is hard to believe that this 8,000 acre agricultural estate owned by the Crown was once a small mid-river sandbank often submerged by spring tides . |
| 4 | RIGHT This building was once a small stone cottage , but its decay and collapse has been accelerated by trees and other vegetation which have found the old building an ideal environment . |
| 5 | Occasionally I saw birds , huge buzzards , squatting on rock outcrops , and once a small antelope , far off across an expanse of stones . |