Where there were once only a few recognized outfitters in Pembrokeshire half a decade ago, now there are more than a dozen.
It was surreal to be dodging paint pellets in an area where there were once real bullets whizzing through the air.
Where there were once four or five Brazilian store owners in the Flint district of that mill city, there are now only two.
There were once almost two million gray wolves in North America, but they were nearly wiped out by fur traders and hunters in the 1930s.
It is estimated that there were once five billion prairie dogs in the plains and inter-mountain regions of the United States, northern Mexico and Canada.
In a place where there were once only businessmen, there are now so many families and children that the neighbourhood baseball team has had to restrict applications.
There were once hundreds of elephants roaming this area, but hunting and deforestation have almost wiped out the population, with as few as one or two elephants remaining in the wild.
"There were some concerns once we managed to get the balloon launched, " Thompson said.
That person knows how hard it is to be in your shoes because they were there once.
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There once were two planets, new to the galaxy and inexperienced in life.
There once were two planets, well accustomed to life and death.
There were eleven states that once did not tax personal income that chose to raise one.
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Where once there were only barren slopes, dotted with ovens used to produce chalk, forest now grows down to the hotel's edge.
Of course, there were very few left once the Washington Post subsidiary Social Code hired 15 engineers from the floundering service, which accounted for more than half of its workforce.
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At BMO, where investors heaved a sigh of relief because for once there were no large, unexpected charges, investment banking earnings slumped 7.5%, while profit from retail operations was essentially flat.
Once there were rumblings that Kekua might not exist, ESPN was chasing that story but, after an internal debate, the network held off while trying to get an interview with Te'o, according to The New York Times.
The eyes have lost the inlays of another unknown material that once were there, but they still glare, heightening the tension created by the creature's aggressive pose.
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There were soft dismissals and guys got out once they got in - no one went in there and converted.
And while bond markets appeared to calm on Friday there were reports that the ECB was once again intervening to steady Italian government bonds.
The great philosopher Kant once said that there were two things that continually filled him with wonder: the starry heavens above him and the moral law within him.
The chief executive of the City of York once told me there were so many government inspectors in his building at any one time that they filled his entire appointments diary.
There were a lot of considerations that once you decide you want to do a speech to Congress, and you have to deal with congressional schedules and there are many other factors here.
Wenger may take heart from the fact that Arsenal were not swept aside in the manner they were against Chelsea last season, although there were moments of slackness at the back, but there was no consolation in a familiar scoreline as they were once again beaten by their fierce London rivals.
Once the nation's credit shores dried up, there were few buyers who could reasonably afford the inflated prices, which quickly began dropping once inventory grew and buyers stayed home.
What is true, there's no doubt about it, is that once it got through the committee process and there were now a series of meetings taking place all over the Capitol trying to figure out how to get the thing together -- that was a messy process.
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No claim was made on her, nor were there protestations of devotion, as once, so often, there had been.
There were over a million who bought the game early, and at its peak there were 400, 000 players playing at once.
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In fact, she once told me that there were three Claras in her soul: a little girl, an old crone enslaved by her family, and a young woman, the real Clara, who wanted to get out of that city forever, who wanted to paint, and take photos, and travel, and live.
Once he closed down, there were 30-some vessels that would not have a place to bring their catch.
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