She sometimes recognized on the faces of others joy and ambition and other emotions she could recall having had once, long ago.
Once, long ago, this farmer worked his fingers to the bone so his son could learn to be a clerk at the castle.
The hope is that the new government will soon find its feet and turn its attention to reintegrating Kolkata into a global economy that it was once, long ago, at the heart of.
Who could refute the awfulness of what this bastard had done to the woman who once, long ago, after the Germans had murdered his mother and sister, had come reasonably close to being the only woman he could ever love?
Once, long, long ago, almost forty years back, he passed through Ravenna and sent me a postcard of one of these famous mosaics.
For Margaret Barker, a Methodist scholar, part of the faith's power lies in its insistence that prophecy and divine revelation did not just happen once, a long time ago: the flow of messages from God is still in progress.
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Once, not so very long ago, private individuals could not get access to photocopy machines except at certain government offices, such as the Post Office of Public Libraries.
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Once, not all that long ago, Patagonia was the end of the world, a place where the best climbers on the planet came to test themselves against steep, technical peaks that are routinely thrashed by storms and wind of epic proportions.
What was once an unusual sight not too long ago in American cities is now part of the urban landscape.
Through six decades, he's only been late to work once, and it was so long ago, he can't even remember why.
Once upon a time not too long ago, document signage involved downloading the document, printing it off, picking up a pen with either black or blue ink and signing off at the appropriate places, scanning the document once signed, uploading it, attaching the paperwork to an email, and then finally sending off that email back in reply with your signature.
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But when I got home, I opened up the remote and saw all those sturdy diodes, capacitors, and transistors with their mysterious colored bands, combinations of which once spoke a subtle language to engineers long ago retired or dead.
As Karl Marx of all people long ago observed, a demand once satisfied engenders new demands that producers will logically attempt to fulfill.
To keep the sand from blowing away, most courses rake three or four gallons of vegetable oil into each green once or twice a year. (Not too long ago, they used motor oil.) Sand greens are about one-third the speed of grass, but the oil quickens them up a bit, too.
If there was once a line that stopped journalists from engaging in blatant self-promotion, it long ago vanished.
Indeed, the memory in an Apple iPod alone, not long ago worth millions, is today worth a microscopic fraction of what it once was.
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