Example sentences of "[verb] only once [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since each inter-probe distance need be calculated only once the execution time is dependent primarily on the number of probes , not the number of clones . |
| 2 | Assemblies met only once a year but set up permanent executive boards . |
| 3 | ‘ Are accounts produced only once a year ? ’ |
| 4 | The typical pattern was for the local parties to meet only once a year in 1915 and 1916 , to re-elect their officers for another year ; agents who had enlisted were kept on the books by retaining half their normal pay , to compensate them for loss of earnings in the national interest and to keep them available for a resumption of partisanship . |
| 5 | The commission responsible for undertaking this revision was convoked only once a week by its president , Ottaviani . |
| 6 | Of the many drawbacks the most ludicrous is that applications can be made only once a year at a certain time . |
| 7 | The publication day of Hank Stych 's book went unremarked in Tollemarche , mainly because the only bookseller in the town had not had time to unpack his new stock , and book reviews were featured only once a month in the Tollemarche Advent and then only in an obscure corner of an inner page . |
| 8 | The large number of members involved means that a full meeting of this board would be too cumbersome for the day-to-day administration of the IMF and so it meets only once a year , mainly to ratify any new proposals . |
| 9 | As Josh Gifford also pointed out , one root of the problem is that the Mildmay course has , until now , been used only once a year . |
| 10 | Old shrub roses , particularly centifolias , enjoy clay , but flower only once a season . |
| 11 | You can set certain programs in your autoexec.bat file to run only once a day , every 4 hours , every week or every 3 minutes , in fact any combination of time at all . |
| 12 | It was found that this was not the case , generally homework was set only once a fortnight . |
| 13 | At second interview however they said it was no problem to them to visit her , and that they now go only once a week , and ‘ do not mind carrying on ’ . |
| 14 | This is clearly a better place to sell razor blades than Azerbaijan , where the men say they shave only once a week , or , if they want to look their best , every other day . |
| 15 | On a visit to Mrs Chamberlin she explained that she did not like to leave her aunt and would from then on come only once a week , and she put it about that for the moment , neither she nor her aunt would be at home on Wednesday afternoons . |
| 16 | In the case of credit card facilities , increases in credit limits will normally be extended only once a year and you will be given the option to reject any increase . |
| 17 | Imagine friends that you see only once a year , say at Christmas time . |
| 18 | When meetings are held only once a year , or even less frequently , it is all too easy to forget why a particular provision was formulated and on what grounds one supported or opposed it . |
| 19 | After the production had opened rehearsals were held only once a week ; it was a comparatively easy life after the work in cine-variety that most of them had done . |
| 20 | Further experiments showed that sloth metabolism was so slow that they defecated only once a week . |
| 21 | But building societies paid only once a year . |
| 22 | If you can shop only once a week for example , you will need much more deep freeze space than if you can shop every day . |
| 23 | The impact will not immediately be felt by the millions of borrowers on semi-fixed mortgages , whose rates are changed only once a year . |