Sentence examples for once so long from inspiring English sources

Once, so long ago that it could have been in another life, I was required to take a voice test by the BBC.

When David Cameron rushes back from Tuscany (a k a Chiantishire) to riot-ravaged London, and Nicolas Sarkozy hustles home from the Riviera to a Paris debt crisis, and the summer vacation void vanishes in Europe (once so long the Germans coined a word for "free-time angst"), all bets are off.

Castillo, 22, who plays professionally in Mexico and holds dual Mexican and United States citizenship, said in an interview this week that he planned to use a new FIFA rule that allows players of any age with dual citizenship to switch countries once, so long as they have not appeared in a competitive match for a senior national team.

Once, not so long ago, motorcycles did the same thing.

I was thin again once not so long ago.

Once, not so long ago, Llewyn Davis had a partner, but now he's flying solo.

The bottom line is clear enough: once, not so long ago, we were working in another universe.

We did it once, not so long ago: in Milton Keynes, where the Development Corporation produced plans that developers wanted to build because they found that quality meant profits.

Colin once took so long painting our house that by the time he finished the rear exterior the front windows needed doing again.

Once, not so long ago, Kiarostami was the de facto leader of the Iranian new wave, the creator of soulful, enigmatic human stories rooted in his home soil.

Once there, so long as they pay their taxes and social security charges, British people have exactly the same rights as a French person.