Once a thriving vacation city on the coast, it is still the second largest city in Mozambique, with a population of 300, 000.

Once the home of a thriving lobster industry, Tavolara now attracts divers who come to view the coral, sponges, sea anemones, bottlenose dolphins, and even a few specimens of Pinna nobilis, the rare giant clam whose byssus fibers were formerly used in the manufacture of sea silk for royal garments.

Once considered a primary skill, increased accessibility to more user-friendly DTP software has made DTP a secondary skill to art direction, graphic design, multimedia development, marketing communications, administrative careers and advanced high school literacy in thriving economies.

Once the home of a thriving barrel-making industry which depleted the nearby virgin forests Mill Shoals had primarily been an agriculture village until 1939 when oil was discovered in the area.

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 dominated by coal mines, this borough has in recent times become the center of a thriving retail corridor focused along Business Route 6 and around the Viewmont Mall.

Once again Askern changed direction and became a thriving pit village, which welcomed people from all over the country to work and live in its area, giving the town a mixed background.

Once a thriving oil town with a general store, a school, a post office, a gas station, and a Methodist church, Renfrew's only operating business today is the post office.

The Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad runs materials to and from the AK Steel mill in Butler through Renfrew along Railroad St. Once used by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, it was at one time a thriving railway that would travel down to Pittsburgh.

Once this was a thriving country market town, but in recent decades the middle classes have continuously migrated to Ankara in search of jobs and careers and Haymana has become populated by villagers from the surrounding countryside, an area with a substantial Kurdish population.

Once a small fishing village, Cancún in the northeast of the peninsula has grown into a thriving city.

Once a thriving neighborhood, years of neglect, crime, and homelessness have resulted in economic blight.

Once a thriving village, due to the local coalmining, it is now little more than a few private houses, and the former Westwood County Junior Mixed and Infant School is now a housing complex where the houses are named after the rows of colliery houses that were demolished in the early 1970s.

Once known as Hulun, Hailar today is a relatively small but thriving modern industrial city of around 300, 000, its population having soared from an estimated 20, 000 in the mid-20th century.

Once a thriving sugar port, it is today a centre of environmental tourism and a gateway to the Treasure Beach resort area ; Treasure Beach and Crane Beach are to the south-east with Luana Beach to the west.

Once, thriving Native American trade communities of Tiwa and Tompiro language-speaking Puebloans inhabited this remote frontier area of central New Mexico.

Once a thriving market village on the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway, the village suffered from partition in 1922, the closure of the railway in 1957 and from the closure of numerous cross-border roads by the British army at the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Once the Euphrates enters the Upper Mesopotamian plains, its grade drops significantly ; within Syria the river falls while over the last stretch between Hīt and the Shatt al-Arab the river drops only.

Once the railway reached Echuca in 1864, the bulk of the woolclip from the Riverina was transported via river to Echuca and then south to Melbourne.

Once he reached Bira, near the river, he was joined by Kukbary and Nur al-Din of Hisn Kayfa and the combined forces captured the cities of Jazira, one after the other.

Once news of Stephen's capture reached him, Geoffrey of Anjou invaded Normandy again and, in the absence of Waleran of Beaumont, who was still fighting in England, Geoffrey took all the duchy south of the river Seine and east of the river Risle.

Once the imperial forces crossed the river Oder, Bolesław I sent a detachment of Moravian knights in a diversionary attack against the Eastern March of the empire.

Once that is eliminated, the idea of opening the piazza to the river is a good one.

Once it was called " The most Hungarian river " as until 1920 it flowed within Hungary for its entire length ( from source to draining ).

Once the Yuan forces occupied Xiangyang, they could travel by ships down the Han river into the Yangtze river.

Once Belgium had claimed its independence from the Netherlands in 1830 the treaty of the Scheldt determined that the river should remain accessible to ships headed for Belgian ports.

Once river navigation has been stopped and all subsidiary gates closed, then the Thames Barrier itself can be closed.

Once over 500 m long, the Roman Kemer Bridge crossed the upper reaches of the river near the present-day village of Kemer.

Once it had entered Gondor the river flowed past Osgiliath and Minas Tirith and then Pelargir, close to the sea.

Once a busy and important river port the last industrial building on the riverside in Sudbury has been converted into the Quay Theatre.

Once completed, the bridge had a 70-foot clearance on the center span, allowing for river traffic to pass under the bridge.

Once joined, the river flows in a northerly direction, past Fletland Mill, a former grain mill which was built in 1759, and Kate's Bridge weir, where a modern bridge carries the A15 road over it.

Once the route to Bourne was closed off, there was little trade on the river, although a short section of about was used by barges until the 1920s.

Once tunneling had been shown to be feasible, increasing automobile traffic led to interest in a roadway crossing the river as well.

" Once, the river reached peaks of more than in the summer and low flows of less than in the winter on an annual basis.

Once that is eliminated, the idea of opening the piazza to the river is a good one.

Once in 1991's Slacker, where a character reads an excerpt from Ulysses after convincing his friends to dump a tent and a typewriter in a river as a response to a prior lover's infidelity.

Once the entire flow of the South Drain was entering the Huntspill river, the section which had originally run northwards from Gold Corner to the River Brue became redundant.

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

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 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 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 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.