Sentence examples for once when there was from inspiring English sources

Once, when there was hail in June, workers went through the vineyard vine by vine, removing damaged berries with a fork.

Once, when there was Aqua Alta flooding, one of the waiters had to carry a distinguished nobleman piggyback through the water to catch his boat home.

Once, when there was no answer to a phone call I'd made on the Fourth of July to a friend who was studying in Paris, it occurred to me that he might be at the U.S. Embassy's annual Independence Day party.

I find myself having to listen to messages more than once when there is a phone number or other specific information that needs to be written down.

It should be noted that detection of wild bird mortality events is more likely to occur when large numbers of individuals perish at once, when there are fewer scavengers, in habitats that are monitored as wildlife parks, protected wetlands or RAMSAR sites, in habitats frequented by tourist or birders, or in locations with greater human densities.

Jack Welch, a former boss of GE, once wrote: "When there are a lot of layers, it usually means managers have too few people reporting to them".The coming of the virtual organisation made managers take a new look at the concept.

It was Chairman Mao who once said "when there is repression the people will revolt".

Because as Herbert Hoover once said: "When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned".

The civil war began in this once stable nation on Sept. 19, when there was a failed coup by soldiers.

Rumors of bombs and of censored Twitter accounts of Pemex employees swirled online Friday, leading many to note that the blast revealed once again that when there is a lack of transparency, the void tends to be filled with imagined horrors.

Every once in while, however — when there's a garbage strike, for instance — it grabs headlines.