Example sentences of "only 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 , |