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Discover Ludwig"I once needed" is correct and can be used in written English
It usually implies that at some point in the past, you required something. For example, "I once needed someone to help me with my chemistry homework."
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I once needed a costume that had been sent back to Japan for a re-shoot.
I once needed to set a scene on the muddy bit at the side of the Thames.
For example, I once needed to fly from New York to Paris but the fare was $900.
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Only tried it once, needed a pair of earplugs".
I had been coddling mum the whole way, assuming I was more street-smart than her and that – finally – now she needed me to handle the complexities of the world in a way that I had once needed her as a child.
I get involved in charity work because I was a kid who once needed help — and I got it".
My examiners once needed several years of teaching experience, now I'll take a PGCE student.
She once needed to find herself, and she did.
However, HARQ retransmissions, once needed, will be separately scheduled using a dynamic scheduler.
You once needed to create your first web pages.
The urgency, the analog tangible feel of the words being pressed into the paper, the inability to edit or change, I absolutely loved it and I knew it was something I once again needed to be doing.
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