A star is born, and he grows into a once-in-a-generation megastar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Siegel: American Thriller] Reference

That's the once-in-a-generation opportunity we have in this election.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report: Obama Takes "Dig" At Edwards' Trial Lawyer Past] Reference

Bill Clinton is sort of a once-in-a-generation politician in that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: Democratic National Convention: Author Bill Turque Discusses Candidate Gore - August 13, 2000] Reference

You now have a once-in-a-generation chance to take action in the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul C. Light: Open Letter to the Presidential Candidates] Reference

This guy is an incredible superstar, he's a once-in-a-generation politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [In With the New] Reference

But short of that, they'll be offering stocks some once-in-a-generation support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time To Time The Market?] Reference

He's a presidential candidate, and an admittedly once-in-a-generation one at that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glynnis MacNicol: GENERATION NOBAMA: Wildly Overbooked Campaign Event Leaves Barack Pack Out on the Street] Reference

He called today's financial crisis a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" for Japan Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [The One Big Buyer] Reference

We now know that "once-in-a-generation" swings in the business cycle are anything but.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Unified Bank Regulator Is a Good Start] Reference

If they win the election, the Tories will inherit a once-in-a-generation defence crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory defence policy will be simple: cut, brutally] Reference

Presidents who have squandered as many once-in-a-generation opportunities as Barack Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naomi Klein: For Obama, No Opportunity Too Big to Blow] Reference

Eventually I decided Obama was a once-in-a-generation leader who deserved my support regardless.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Official: John And Elizabeth Edwards Will Not Endorse In Prez Race] Reference

They sensed there were too few of them and that a once-in-a-generation opportunity might be lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside the Republican Money Machine] Reference

"We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to change things for good," he said at a seaside rally.    From Wordnik.com.  [On eve of British election, shake-up in Parliament is forecast] Reference

"This is truly a once-in-a-generation experiment," says Virdee, "but it will take a generation to do.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Grand Experiment] Reference

Yes, they pleaded that the storms were a once-in-a-generation event -- but then, so is the credit crunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [While We're at It, Let's Punish the Pols] Reference

I knew what they were thinking: the guy is flawed (as are we all), but what a once-in-a-generation talent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t Call Me—I May Call You] Reference

And I'm optimistic that we can reach a good doha agreement and seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2007] Reference

But they are far outnumbered by lesser-known ones that see Kurdistan as a once-in-a-generation opportunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildcatters Plunge Into North Iraq] Reference

Let me first say that the President has said that this is a once-in-a-generation vote because of its importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On Trade Relations With China] Reference

The stimulus package provides a once-in-a-generation chance to make good on America's promise of equal opportunity for all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angela Glover Blackwell: The Stimulus, The Poor and The NY Times] Reference

It matters because the recession is a once-in-a-generation chance to push for a sustainable economy and fairer distribution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Where is the Climate Change Bill?] Reference

A confluence of factors has created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reorder priorities and reshape public policy for decades to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Phillips: Seizing the Time: The Role of Independent Groups in 2008] Reference

We have this great once-in-a-generation candidate, and some of our own people resort to repeating Repub talking points at the first sign of trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Campaign Piles Up New Falsehoods On Bridge To Nowhere] Reference

You have been given what DPA calls a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to help us reclaim our freedom as Americans, and to live safer, healthier lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norm Stamper: Open Letter to the New "Drug Czar" from Another Top Cop: End the Drug War] Reference

Mr. Clooney continues his quest for challenging roles requiring more than the effortless charm his once-in-a-generation good looks can turn on so easily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hours Will Win Awards By More Than a Schnozz] Reference

This is a critical mistake as it squanders a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make lasting change and positively address L. A.'s many environmental needs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andy Lipkis: Economic Stimulus Doesn't Have to Mean Ecological Disaster] Reference

Possibly, if there's another election with a hugely admired, charismatic, once-in-a-generation leader like Barack Obama who inspires the devotion of millions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art Levine: While GOP Smears Franken Vote, Will Obama Help Repair Election System?] Reference

The reason may have been the once-in-a-generation political opportunity that presented itself in 2009: overwhelming Democratic control of the House and Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethnic Politics in Our Enlightened Post-Racial Society] Reference

With Congress set to re-write the US Foreign Assistance Act, this year offers a once-in-a-generation kind of opportunity to actually re-vamp our development aid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Kavanagh: Paul Farmer Joining the Obama/Clinton Team? We Can Hope...] Reference

ED RAPPAPORT, NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER: It's really going to be a once-in-a-generation or once-in-a-lifetime impact, and so people need to prepare for just that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2004] Reference

You have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to create a package of bipartisan economic initiatives that are far more ambitious than anything we have seen in decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Right Way Back] Reference

The trick for Democrats is to go beyond simply responding to the mess Republicans left, and seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to forge a new governing agenda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krauthammer Gives The Race To Obama] Reference

We've seen a once-in-a-generation alignment of forces: A 60-vote majority for the first time since the 1970s, a new and (initially) popular president, a massive financial crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on the filibuster] Reference

Democrats could go, in two short years, from winning once-in-a-generation majorities in both houses of Congress to something very like the 1994 fiasco which swept them from power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Weigant: Democrats Now "All In" On Healthcare Reform] Reference