Sentence examples for once customary from inspiring English sources

(Once customary, such casting is rare today).

Even the once customary practice of announcing contracts at regular public hearings has stopped, thus removing transparency from the operations of the department.

Insurers are increasing elimination periods — the period during which a beneficiary must cover his or her own costs — and reducing inflation protection to 3 percent from 5 percent, once customary.

But it was once customary for young jazz musicians to put their aspirations to become band leaders on hold while they served as sidemen to more established musicians, as Mr. Shorter did himself during his lengthy tenures with Art Blakey and Miles Davis.

It was once customary for a company to do everything possible to help the customer in every way.

And most are turning their backs on the once-customary aerodynamic helmets and latex shorts in favor of a look as fetching as it is genteel.

The Times said he had been a near-recluse who had not ventured out for his once-customary evening walks after 1887, because the "glare and fantastic shadows" of the new electric lighting on Broadway annoyed him.

Moreover, he said, some publishers have begun updating their textbooks every two years (rather than the once-customary three), a strategy that makes it harder for students to rely on old copies of the books.

But without Congressional action, people who lost their jobs after July 1, for example, would receive no federally paid extensions once their customary six months of state aid ran out.

Now that victory is customary once again, the expectations for North Carolina will be familiarly high.

Once, with his customary elevation of tone, Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, called the idea of Labour ruling out an in/out referendum on the EU "stupid".