Sentence examples for have worked once from inspiring English sources

That would have worked once, but no longer.

But neither would have worked once the government decided that the helicopter had to be small enough to easily land on the White House lawn.

It's a system that may have worked once, but in a modern technocracy there are virtues besides the ability to win a hand-to-hand fight that a ruler would need.

Sure, the code might have worked once, but what are the failure cases?

I had worked once making cakes in Mexico, but that was different.

It seemed to them that what had worked once for geometry could work again for all of mathematics.

Ignacio Sanchez, 50, who has a wife and three children in Mexico, said a week before Christmas that he had worked once since the beginning of the month.

Tortorella's use of a timeout had worked once earlier this season, after the Rangers had fallen behind, 2-0, in the first period at the Devils on Oct. 5, a game the Rangers wound up winning, 3-2.

It had worked once before, almost two months ago, when the rookie co-owner Charles B. Wang suddenly appeared at the Islanders' morning skate to try to revive his sagging team.

Issuing a reward has worked once before in helping the FBI arrest a wanted hacker, Demarest said.

To top this off, Mr. Roh is almost completely lacking experience in international affairs and has worked only once in the executive branch, as maritime affairs minister.