Sentence examples for one-time affair from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, DREAM is a niggardly, one-time affair.

The bulk of that frothy growth can be attributed to a replenishing of business inventories, a one-time affair unless across-the-board economic activity picks up.

When Jack Boulware and Jane Ganahl, a pair of San Francisco writers, gathered together a few dozen authors for two days of literary events back in 1999 and called it Litstock, they figured it would be a one-time affair.

Thank goodness set-up is a one-time affair.

For many prisoners, time spent behind bars isn't a one-time affair either.

There's no word yet as to whether there will be more "Ferns" to come, or if this is a one-time affair.

But that event and its successors were, like the original Woodstock and Altamont, one-time affairs.

They are one-time affairs.

To China, the greatest surprise of the campaign has been that its one-time love affair with Mitt Romney has collapsed; Xinhua now seems to delight in calling him "a veteran investor who used to profit handsomely from doing business with China" but has now reimagined himself as the most vehement anti-China presidential candidate in memory.

Charles Leadbeater was a one-time researcher on the ITV current affairs programme Weekend World – where he had worked alongside Peter Mandelson – who had then moved to the Financial Times, and begun enthusiastically writing for Marxism Today, as well as joining the CP.

He explained that his one-time use of "international affairs officers" was merely "to shorten the sentence in which the phrase appeared" and denied that he was trying to merge the two services.