"once" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Meanwhile, other countries are spending more on research, taking some of the glory that America once monopolized.
- Its rivals CNPC and Sinopec have recently been granted approval to conduct offshore explorations once monopolized by CNOOC Limited.
- The arrival of television brought an identity crisis for the medium that once monopolized in-home electronic entertainment.
- The plan called for allowing new companies to sell power in territories once monopolized by the local utilities.
- It was the type of situation that Dave Righetti once monopolized, when he was the unquestioned closer of the Yankee bullpen.
- Trade paperbacks also compete now for reprint rights to best-selling fiction, a segment of the industry once monopolized by mass-market paperbacks.
- It is, I admit, a little hard to celebrate status when those who once monopolized it - the blue-blood aristocracy - gave it such a bad name.
- Furthermore, to appease their own unemployed populations, gulf leaders have adopted "indegenization" policies, reserving jobs once monopolized by Indians for Arabs.
- The switch to New Year's Day in 1982 created an uninvited guest among the Big Four that once monopolized the day.
- Her appointment to her new job, by Sandy Grushow, chairman of the Fox Television Entertainment Group, came at a significant moment for a network that once monopolized the teenage and young-adult audiences.
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