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 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 a flourishing small community with a lighthouse, the island was destroyed by coastal erosion and now exists as a shoal that is exposed at low tide.

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 Ionian revolt was finally crushed by the Persian victory at the Battle of Lade, Darius began plans to subjugate Greece.

Once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, Ur is now well inland, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, from Nasiriyah.

Once he became Emperor, Maurice brought the war with Persia to a victorious conclusion: the Empire's eastern border in the Caucasus was vastly expanded, the Persian king Khosrau II married the Emperor's daughter, and for the first time in nearly two centuries the Romans were no longer obliged to pay the Persians thousands of pounds of gold annually for peace.

Once all his allies arrived, Aristagoras put his brother Charopinus in charge of the expedition, and the whole contingent set out for Sardis, the Persian capital in Ionia.

Once it became clear that the Persian fleet was not going to arrive that day, they decided to sail to Chalcis, halfway down on the western coast of Euboea, leaving men on the heights of Euboea to warn of the actual arrival of the Persian ships.

Once grown primarily in Florida in the U. S, it rose to prominence after Key lime orchards were wiped out there by a hurricane in 1926, according to the American Pomological Society, subsequently Persian lime orchards themselves were devastated by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

In the process, many acts of violence took place, Zoroastrian scriptures were burnt and many mobads executed ( for examples, see Balāḏori, Fotuḥ, p. 421 ; Biruni, Āṯār, p. 35 ). Once conquered politically, the Persians began to reassert themselves by maintaining Persian language and culture.

Once the initial exchange is completed, further supplies of special notes will be obtainable by the Persian Gulf banks under the existing arrangements for obtaining notes from India, namely, through payment of sterling.

* Sardis: Once the capital of the Lydian empire and subsequently of a Persian satrapy, it is a source of scarlet dye used to denote the cloaks of Athenian officers ( line 1174 ).

In a July 29, 2012 posting on the Persian Risk Facebook page, an August release was announced for the new album, entitled Once A King.

Once an inlet of the Gulf of Tonkin, it has been filled in by the enormous alluvial deposits of the rivers over a period of millennia, and it advances one hundred meters into the Gulf annually.

Once Osiel Cárdenas Guillen consolidated his position and supremacy, he expanded the responsibilities of Los Zetas, and as years passed, they became much more important for the Gulf Cartel.

Once captured by the Allies, the islands in the Gulf became bases for the B-29's that bombed Japan in 1945.

Once the highway reaches Yaguaraparo, a town located on the southern portion of the Paria Peninsula along the Gulf of Paria, Venezuela Highway 9 continues west for approximately to the towns of Casanay and Pantoño.

Once established bunyas are quite hardy and can be grown as far south as Hobart in Australia ( 42 ° S ) and Christchurch in New Zealand ( 43 ° S ) and ( at least ) as far north as Sacramento in California ( 38 ° N ) and Lisbon ( in the botanical garden ) and even in Dublin area in Ireland ( 53ºN ) in a microclimate protected from arctic winds and moderated by the Gulf Stream.

Once Gilbert entered the Gulf of Mexico on September 15, hurricane watches were posted for the portion of the shore between Port Arthur and Tampico.

Once in the Gulf of Mexico, Greta did not re-intensify, though it retained a closed circulation while moving around a high-pressure area.

Once in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Isidore became a major Category 3 storm with winds of.

Once in the Gulf of Mexico, Keith began to re-strengthen and was upgraded to a tropical storm later that day, and a hurricane on the following day.

Once over the Gulf of Mexico, it weakened slightly to Category 4 strength, which it maintained while approaching the Gulf Coast of the United States.

Once spring training ends, Extended spring training ran from April through the beginning of the Gulf Coast League season.

Once again Ali Al-Habsi had received the " Best Goalkeeper of the Gulf Cup " for the third consecutive time in a row ; the most won by a goalkeeper in the 40 years of the Gulf Cup tournament.

Once in the Gulf, forward motion picked up as it intensified to winds of.

Once it emerged into the Gulf of Mexico, it began to grow in intensity.

Once the system began its northward track, further advisories were issued for the Baja California Peninsula as well as the Gulf of California coastline.

Once Osiel Cárdenas Guillen consolidated his position and supremacy, he expanded the responsibilities of Los Zetas, and as years passed, they became much more important for the Gulf Cartel.