Once a flourishing Saxon riverport, it lies in the Waveney valley and is a popular boating centre.

Once a secret cult flourishing within the dark underside of the Empire and the Silver Cities, it resides in Heresh and is ruled by corrupted wizards who worship a twisted spider version of Asha, the Dragon of Order, seeking to find everlasting peace and beauty in death that has been denied to them in life.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

Once she has made up her mind, the queen starts out by constructing, in her chosen abode, a small `` floor '' of dried grass or some woolly material.

Once, in New York, he had gone flying with some friends in a small private airplane with a single engine.

Once a small Persian Gulf sheikhdom known locally as a center for pearl diving and boat construction, Kuwait came to international prominence in the post-World War II era largely because of its enormous oil revenues.

Once part of the French Colonial Empire, the Louisiana Territory stretched from present-day Mobile Bay to just north of the present-day Canadian border, and included a small part of what is now southwestern Canada.

Once there, a series of chemical reactions ( the Sabatier reaction coupled with electrolysis ) would be used to combine a small amount of hydrogen ( 8 tons ) carried by the Earth Return Vehicle with the carbon dioxide of the Martian atmosphere to create up to 112 tonnes of methane and oxygen.

Once on Mars, the crew would spend 18 months on the surface, carrying out a range of scientific research, aided by a small rover vehicle carried aboard their Mars Habitat Unit, and powered by the methane produced by the Earth Return Vehicle.

Once the ballots are counted and bound together, they are burned in a special stove erected in the Sistine Chapel, with the smoke escaping through a small chimney visible from St. Peter's Square.

Once activated, these exchange factors can activate more small G proteins, thus amplifying the receptor's initial signal.

Once in the small intestine, the enzyme enteropeptidase activates it into trypsin by proteolytic cleavage.

Once the model of a molecule's structure has been finalized, it is often deposited in a crystallographic database such as the Cambridge Structural Database ( for small molecules ), the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database ( ICSD ) ( for inorganic compounds ) or the Protein Data Bank ( for protein structures ).

Once it was one of the most important small kingdoms of South Arabia.

Pullman has published two short stories related to His Dark Materials: " Lyra and the Birds ", which appears with accompanying illustrations in the small hardcover book Lyra's Oxford ( 2003 ), and " Once Upon a Time in the North " ( 2008 ).

Once ionized, the xenon ions typically have a charge of + 1, though a small fraction (~ 20 %) are + 2.

Once the first weapon power-up is collected, two small ships appear above and below the ZIG, and follow its exact movements.

Once other investigations have indicated Wilson's disease, the ideal test is the removal of a small amount of liver tissue through a liver biopsy.

Once the go-ahead had been given, a small team was put together to implement Wilson's model in hardware.

Once they gained a small foothold on land, thanks to their preadaptations and being at the right place at the right time, favourable variations in their descendants would gradually result in continuing evolution and diversification.

Once Meg and John are married, Meg becomes “ dependent ” on him and “ isolated in her little cottage with two small children .”

* Once ingested, the larva will remain dug into a villus in the small intestine for about 2 – 3 days until it is fully developed for migration to the ileo-cecum section of the gastrointestinal tract.

Once dominated by local Coyotes charging relatively small sums, the business landscape has changed as larger, well-organized syndicates have entered the smuggling industry in Mexico.

Once a mistletoe plant has established itself on a branch, the usual treatment is to prune away the branch if it is a small one.

Once this obstruction occurs, the appendix subsequently becomes filled with mucus and swells, increasing pressures within the lumen and the walls of the appendix, resulting in thrombosis and occlusion of the small vessels, and stasis of lymphatic flow.

Once dressed, the family and the small circle of servants who had remained with them were herded into a small room in the house's sub-basement and told to wait.

Once the Hershey – Chase experiment was published, the scientific community generally acknowledged that DNA was the genetic code material.

Once an autonomous community had been constituted, the 145th article of the constitution prohibits the federation or union of two or more autonomous communities.

Once a large influx of Fuzhou immigrants came in, the eastern portion of Chinatown became more fully developed as being part of Chinatown and establishing their own Fuzhou community primarily on the East Broadway and Eldridge Street portion, which has resulted in referring East Broadway as Fuzhou Street No. 1 and Eldridge Street as Fuzhou Street No. 2 becoming known as the New Chinatown of Manhattan separate from the long time heavily dominated Cantonese community, which is the western section of Chinatown or the Old Chinatown of Manhattan.

Once the first sales had been completed, remaining homeowners were offered increasingly lesser amounts of money, to create a community panic of not receiving fair compensation, or of being left as one of the few holdouts.

Once the county seat of Dale County, Newton lost this distinction to nearby Ozark in 1870, and is now a small farming community.

Once predominantly a part-time community until the early-1990s, more full-time residents live in La Quinta to make it possibly more populous than Palm Springs by 2006, according to some demographers.

Once known as the two towns of " Summerville " in the south and " Cartersville " in the north, Tuolumne City has incorporated them both into one town and now has a loyal citizen base who work diligently to revive its community life.

Once a thriving river community where apples were loaded and shipped, banks were busy and profitable, stores were laden with goods and shoppers, Hamburg now sits quietly along and sometimes in the waters of the Mississippi.

Once a small farming community, by the 1980s it had become a suburb of Elkhart and Goshen, Indiana.

Once primarily a cattle town, Kentland is now an agricultural community with a diversifying economy with the town motto " Where Agriculture and Industry Meet.

Once a community of dairy farms, Dayton is now primarily residential.

Once predominantly populated by low-income to middle-class families, the community is now highly desirable for waterfront living.

Once a quiet bedroom community outside Baltimore, Catonsville is undergoing a renaissance, thanks in large part to UMBC, which has transformed itself from a commuter school into a dynamic research center.

Once a year a female member of the Manchester community is chosen as " Miss Manchester Fire Queen ".

Once a Franciscan mission named after Chief Peshaba, who ruled in the 1880s, this community has grown to include a casino and resort.

Once a thriving city it has all but shrunk away into a mere bed-room community.

Once a thriving farm community which was disappointed when bypassed by railroads, the town in 1876 established the Deerfield Fair.

Once known by the Cherokee name Gunahita, meaning long, the Valley River begins near the Topton community in the far eastern corner of the county, and meanders southeasterly until it meets the Hiwassee River below Murphy.

Once a sleepy, primarily agricultural community, Sumter took a leap into the future with the opening of Shaw Air Force Base ( home of the 20th Fighter Wing ) in 1941.

Once the most populous community in Carbon County, Scofield has shrunk to only a few permanent residents.

Once the site of a lumber mill it is now primarily a bedroom community.

Once considered the " Rose Capital of the World ", Richmond Hill has in recent years seen a huge population upsurge, being Canada's fastest-growing community in the 1990s.

Once a municipal village, Thornhill is now a community and postal designation geographically split into two municipalities along Yonge Street, the city of Vaughan to the west and the city of Markham to the east.