"once" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The invader was a tall man, at once strong and supple.
- Of the 120 employees just released, the largest number, 25, came from Smith Barney's once strong municipal securities division.
- A large part of the once 16,000 men strong division were taken as POWs.
- His political ambitions, once strong, had burnt themselves out and he now watched carefully the progress of others.
- This once strong and important ethnic Banat Swabian minority has now become quite small.
- This once strong woman, the mistress of all she surveyed, suddenly looked like a tourist lost without her guidebook.
- Both shows' ratings, once strong, have declined sharply over the last two seasons.
- His hands were big, and his fingers at once strong and gentle.
- That is especially true in this port city, where a once strong black community is in the midst of a cultural revival.
- Burt was fiftyish, portly, with a body that had been strong once but now held more beer than muscle.
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