Example sentences of "[adv] once [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His room in Leeds was with a Mrs Hubble at 21 Ladysmith Road , and on the return journey he had stopped only once and again at the Merrie England . |
| 2 | Successive governments have been very careful to ensure that the benefits bought from a pension fund are taxed only once and strictly as deferred earned income . |
| 3 | A circular type known as Clava tombs can be found at the northern end of the Great Glen , many without an entrance , which would seem to signify that each was used only once and then sealed . |
| 4 | Melanie had tried to fill the bath from it only once and then it had exploded with such ferocity that the toothbrushes leapt and quivered in the rack and Uncle Philip 's toothglass had taken a suicide jump from the shelf and bounced on the floor , fortunately without breaking . |
| 5 | At the farthest end of the scale is the person who tries to improve his or her shape only once or twice a year , perhaps even less . |
| 6 | The arrival of a train would be a significant event , galvanizing a whole community into action perhaps only once or twice a day . |
| 7 | Many were Shadwell 's acquaintances , people he 'd met only once or twice . |
| 8 | This fact can be used to advantage by those who drink alcohol occasionally perhaps only once or twice a week on social occasions , and not every day . |
| 9 | Only once or twice did he ever become aroused enough for them to make love . |
| 10 | She knew that these sort of wonders do pop up in the world from time to time , but only once or twice in a hundred years . |
| 11 | The valuation of trading stock will normally take place only once or twice a year to coincide with the date of the end of the builder 's financial year or half-year , although larger companies may prepare quarterly accounts . |
| 12 | So fascinated was he , that only occasionally did he remember to touch her , only once or twice interrupt her to bend and kiss her lips , and forgot completely his need for a cigarette . |
| 13 | Dexter had met such relaxed optimism only once or twice before — either in evangelists or conmen . |
| 14 | I had only once or twice done jobs for high SenFed aristocrats or , for royalty . |
| 15 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was only once or twice a month . |
| 17 | Only once or twice has he taunted me with what sounds like the interesting sport of going into the gents in the Cauldhame Arms ( or anywhere else , I suppose ) and attacking the drowned fag-ends in the urinals with a stream of piss . |
| 18 | Only once or twice ? |
| 19 | ‘ My supplies come by van and that 's only once or twice a month . ’ |
| 20 | Well , I mean , only once or twice and then , |
| 21 | She , in fact did look at me rather palsely once or twice . |
| 22 | They also went shooting together once or twice , and they visited neighbours in the district . |
| 23 | In the autumn of that year I was to wedge into the mirror of my college bedsitting-room a piece of paper bearing the following lines : ‘ Life 's a cheat and all things shew it/I thought so once and now I know it ’ . |
| 24 | Going over the limit in the privacy of your own home just once or twice a year probably wo n't do any lasting damage . |
| 25 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 26 | You pay just once and then play all day ! |
| 27 | The bottle was in his right hand and he swung it to and fro once or twice , apparently judging its weight . |
| 28 | I think the number of er er ex I think the fact that this is merely an exception a major exceptions policy that deals only with exceptional cases and the the Humberside structure plan refers to possibly once or twice over a planned period erm might er indicate it 's not intended to open to subvert section fifty four A. |
| 29 | And like , it 's alright say like , once every so often but like once or twice |
| 30 | I 've been on once once or twice but no |