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The phrase "as you once" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a previous time or state in which someone did something or held a certain belief.
Example: "I remember how passionate you were about the project, as you once expressed during our last meeting."
Alternatives: "as you previously" or "as you once did".
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But neither, as you once put it, should it be Dubai-on-Thames.
Small-market teams can't have the same expectations for those managers as you once did.
Is it still the "religion of the universe" as you once called it?
You are as lost in Spanish as you once were in English, he says.
Making such change doesn't require, as you once assumed it did, staying clear of the art mainstream.
Later he wrote him a letter apologising for his "too obstinate and – as you once said – 'godless questions'".
Q. Are you seeing patients who remind you of yourself as you once were? A. A. Yes.
Once you see the Mona Lisa upside down in spools of thread, try going back and seeing the colors as you once did, without pattern or purpose.
The public is broadly hostile to it, but swing voters do not vote for parties that "bang on about" it (as you once put it) for electoral reasons.
"It would bother anybody to hear people say you're over the hill, that you've lost it, you're not as good as you once were," he said.
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You always remember what you've lost as much as what you once had.
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