Sentence examples for once long ago from inspiring English sources

And once, long ago now, she had bought a notebook for a course.

Once, long ago, when they were quarrelling about money, Father put Mother's head in the oven.

But once, long ago, Donnie Dunagan had been the voice of Bambi.

Once, long ago, I think that this was a tennis match.

Once, long ago, Chandor's unnamed sailor was the corn-fed golden boy of American cinema.

I had that experience once, long ago, over a four-hour lunch.

Once, long ago, award ceremonies were rather unruly and rambunctious affairs.

Once, long, long ago, almost forty years back, he passed through Ravenna and sent me a postcard of one of these famous mosaics.

White once wrote of "the destroying planes" that took a bead on Manhattan once not long ago.

The institution was majestic, an enormous beige and cream-colored hacienda with two bell towers rising four stories above the desert, a place that had the look of a child's castle and once -- long ago, before it was a mental hospital -- belonged to a wealthy Spanish landowner.

This sounds the wrong way round, with all due respect to students (and I was once myself, long ago).