Once upon a time

Once upon a time.

Once upon a time there was a carpenter.

Once upon a time there's this happy little bacterium.

I never lied about anything, once upon a time.

Once upon a time... a long, long time ago... there was a mystical city, Tar.

Once upon a time, the world was a big, dysfunctional family.

Once upon a time there was a fairy princess named Lisa.

Once upon a time, there was a dread disease that afflicted children.

Once upon a time, I did a book called How Buildings Learn.

Once upon a time there was a dwarf that lived in the forest.

Once upon a time in 19th century Germany, there was the book.

Once upon a time, in a little town called Bethlehem a baby was born.

Once upon a time, people appreciated things of beauty and filled their homes with them.

Once upon a time, there was a charming country house... in which lived a very happily married couple.

In other words, it starts off once upon a time, the figures are in crayon, etc.

Once upon a time down in Shreveport, Louisiana there was this bad little girl named Melba Nyle.

Once upon a time, at the age of 24, I was a student at St. John's Medical College in Bangalore.

Dave Eggers' wish Once Upon a School

Once upon a time, this was the primary technique, and, in fact, many countries got rid of malaria through DDT.

PALO ALTO Once upon a time, European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet communicated effectively with the outside world. Not anymore.

Once upon a time, on the North Shore of Long Island, some 30 miles from New York, there lived a small girl on a large estate.

MADRID Once upon a time, despots simply acted like despots. Nowadays, they dress up their dictatorships in the trappings of the rule of law.

Once I met a nice old man upon the village green

If it worked once, it could work a second time.

Picasso once said, It takes a long time to become young.

I am not. Listen carefully. I stole once, a long time ago.

Couldn't you try to be on time just once in a while?

Yes. For once, for the first time.

Just once more, for the last time.

Mr. Chowdhury (Bangladesh) The Furies have unleashed themselves upon the Earth once again, this time with unspeakable ferocity in the form of the Asian tsunami.

Gene even did a little tile work in the kitchen, which was that, Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl that came from hills of Korea to live happily ever after in Atlanta.

Time enough. Once again Good has conquered Evil.

Father, this time I'm leaving once we're done.

And so once more, the Romans warred upon each other.

There was once a time when people did bold things to open the frontier.

Once upon a time, for example, it was widely believed that drivers on privately operated roads would constantly be waiting to pay tolls. Modern transponders and automatic payment systems, however, have made that a non issue.

I'll teach you myself once I get the time, Joey.

And if you say once more, For the time being ...

Once an oil well starts producing oil, it's only a matter of time before it enters a decline.

Once it was a hawk with a broken wing and another time it was a fullgrown wildcat with a broken leg.

Man's sake, that train must have been on time for once.

Where I once sat talking with friends about... the time machine.

But now I'm on time for once, it's dinner that's late.

It was the only time I've been in love, that once.