The phrase "a one time town" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used to describe a town that was once significant or populated but is no longer so.
Example: "Once a bustling hub of activity, it has now become a one time town, with only a few residents remaining."
Alternatives: "a former town" or "an abandoned town".
Solesbury, a one-time town planner and Economic and Social Research Council secretary, who is now a visiting fellow at King's College, London, chooses six cities as principal markers on a fairly wayward route: Venice, Mumbai, New York, Tokyo, Paris and Los Angeles.
A ghost town with SoCal razzle dazzle, Calico is a one-time mining town that went bust before the turn of the century and was later purchased and restored by Walter Knott (of Knott's Berry Farm).
A one-time dotcom boom town, home to companies like Starbucks, Amazon, Microsoft and plenty of start-ups — and also a leading city of the anti-globalisation movement, Seattle is packed with entrepreneurial spirit, rain and contradictions.
Such tragedies are increasingly common around Peoria, a one-time blue-collar boom town of 120,000 that lived--and now is dying--at the hand of the "great yellow God," the sprawling Caterpillar Tractor Co.
The Paines also maintained a seasonal residence in Willsboro, NY on Lake Champlain and, at one time, a town house in Manhattan.
But if you can look past the LC-and-Kristin Cavallari drama, this is Southern California's most picturesque beach town, a one-time artists' colony that now houses high-end restaurants and lounges, in between art galleries and other stores full of stuff only teenagers who work in surf stores can afford.
To the ire of many town residents, Mr. Barton was forced to levy a one-time, 3.75-mill tax to bring the town back into the black.
If you can save $500 or $1000 or more by going to another dealership, or get something much closer to what you want, it can be well worth a one-time drive to a dealer a few towns away.
It's a one-time-only event.
A one-time semi-professional football player.
Fidelity has a one-time sales charge.
