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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a friend once a" is not correct and does not form a complete thought in English.
It may be intended to convey a sentiment about friendship but lacks clarity and context.
Example: "A friend once said, 'True friends are always there for you.'"
Alternatives: "A friend of mine once" or "Once a friend, always a friend."
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Beth Haessig, the school psychologist, succeeded in having coffee with a friend once a week this year.
Beth Haessig, a school psychologist, plans to "have coffee with a friend, once a week," and "listen to music, once a day".
If this describes you, try to find positive resolutions: "Take that dance class," "Have lunch with a friend once a week".
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A friend once named a hunchback-looking fossil quasimodo.
"Where's your dignity?" a friend once asked a girl in a school uniform who hassled him for money.
"A friend once accused me of eying a baby's mittens," she said.
He is, as a friend once said, a monk or a holy person who might better live in a tower or the desert.
She has never used room service, though she and a friend once considered ordering a bottle of wine.
(As a friend once told me, if a guide enthusiastically talks about a "moderate" activity, run).
A friend once got a lift from Stonehenge festival in a batmobile, and I rode into a town in Nicaragua on the juddering mudguard of a tractor.
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