Sentence examples for at a once from inspiring English sources

They spent the day looking up at a once familiar skyline and seeing something disorientingly blank.

They met many years ago at a once legendary, now vanished Upper West Side used bookstore called the Book Ark, recognizing each other immediately as "lifers" in the love of old books.

WASHINGTON — The United Nations nuclear watchdog demanded Friday that Iran immediately freeze operations at a once secret uranium enrichment plant, a sharp rebuke that bore added weight because it was endorsed by Russia and China.

Peter Biro, a principal in a mergers-and-acquisitions consulting firm in Palo Alto, Calif., recalls the two years he spent at a "once highflying" Silicon Valley dot-com.

Iran also not only rejected demands by the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency to immediately freeze operations at a once secret uranium enrichment plant, but also said it would build more plants.

What is certain is that he's getting old, heading towards the grave, and images of death and decay are everywhere – a spectacular suicide at night in central Paris; a romantic reunion with an old lover (Kylie Minogue) at a once grand, now abandoned art nouveau department store; a superbly staged sequence in a cemetery (possibly Père Lachaise).

A year ago it felt like we were looking at a once-in-a-generation opportunity to buy real estate on the cheap.

Minodronic acid prevented these reductions at a once-daily oral administration.

"We're at a once-in-a-lifetime moment in American history," Mr. Stern said.

Most recent tales of sporting Peugeots have been laced with regret at a once-great talent lost.

As a graduate of Harvard College, I was at the time much offended by such tactics at a once-in-a-lifetime event honoring Harvard's long history.