Sentence examples for once five years from inspiring English sources

But though the agency can levy fines of up to $10,000 a day, it has done so only once, five years ago.

She had already refinanced once, five years ago, but because of a continued decline in interest rates, doing it again seemed smart.

This has been an Open of many upsets and Schiavone, who has beaten Stosur only once, five years ago, is playing near her best.

This was the cliché with which I tried to comfort myself Thursday night at the Gramercy Theater, at the opening of Repertorio Español's production of Federico García Lorca's "Así Que Pasen Cinco Años" ("Once Five Years Pass").

On his return to Spain, he completed a second play aimed at rupturing the bounds of conventional dramaturgy, Así que pasen cinco años (1931; Once Five Years Pass), and he assumed the directorship of a traveling student theatre group, La Barraca (the name of makeshift wooden stalls housing puppet shows and popular fairs in Spain), sponsored by the country's progressive new Republican government.

"Only once, two years ago in Israel.

"I tried it once twenty-five yeago ago," he said.

Nor do we need a picture to prove that she was once thirteen years old.

He had grown up in New Hampshire, and once, twenty years ago, served as a Fenway batboy.

Only once, eight years ago, has China's Communist Party managed a smooth transfer of power to Hu Jintao.

In every big raid, he says, they tried to raise a fire storm, but they succeeded just twice - once in Hamburg and once, two years later, in Dresden.