Example sentences of "than once [prep] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | The Bax and Bantock have been reissued more than once on LP , but neither has ever sounded so well as on the present reissue . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He thought more than once of Antwerp as a possible bolt-hole . |
| 8 | Gum shields are one thing ( having rattled my teeth on many a South African hard field in bygone days , and having been bitten more than once in scrums , I wish they had appeared long ago ) , but shoulder pads are entirely different and their acceptance could change the game for the worse , in my opinion . |