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It is a gesture that marks the scale of interest in the exhibition, put together over five years and billed, fairly, as a once-only chance to see so many of the brush strokes of the genius.
Leonardo da Vinci: a late-night masterstroke | Observer editorial 2012
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Or Goethe in his Roman Elegies, taking time out from his studies "on classical soil" to spend with his new lover, fulfilling a literary tradition and at the same time seizing the once-only real opportunity of love in the here and now.
Love in literature 2011
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Should there be once-only repatriation tax relief?
It's Time to Make Some Choices Robert Thomson 2011
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Most of the writing in our annual anthology is apolitical, andfew pieces of overtly political writing have ever won our awards, except in the case of our once-only Obama Millennial Awards.
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So recapitalization must be a once-only event, with no enduring government guarantees or subsidies.
Niall Ferguson: Beyond the Age of Leverage: Alternative Cures for the Global Financial Crisis 2009
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So recapitalisation must be a once-only event, with no enduring government guarantees or subsidies.
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Most of the writing in our annual anthology is apolitical, andfew pieces of overtly political writing have ever won our awards, except in the case of our once-only Obama Millennial Awards.
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So recapitalisation must be a once-only event, with no enduring government guarantees or subsidies.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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So recapitalisation must be a once-only event, with no enduring government guarantees or subsidies.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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No one should expect Congress to regard this as a once-only date.
Bear's Market 2008
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