Once upon the time vs One epon the time

The correct phrase is 'once upon a time.' 'One epon the time' is not a valid or commonly used phrase in English.

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Once upon the time

This is the correct phrase used to begin fairy tales or stories.

This phrase is used to introduce a story or fairy tale, indicating that it happened in the past.

Examples:

Once upon a time, there was a princess in a faraway land.
Once upon a time, there were three little pigs.

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Once upon the time, I saw my favorite writer in a book store and... I've seduced him...
Once upon a time the dead used to be embalmed
Once upon a time the craftsman loved his instruments, no?
For the Once Upon A Time writers, operation nuanced villain is a success.
Once upon a time, the world was a big, dysfunctional family.
Once upon a time, the great hero Huma Dragonbane...
We should've seen Once Upon a Time in the West.
Once upon a time, the Grand Canyon was a sea inhabited by microorganisms.
Once upon a time in the kingdom of Prince Valor there lived a beautiful girl named Adriana.
Once upon a time, the world was filled with magic.
Once upon a time, the smallest hens in the world found a speck of electricity.
Once upon a time, the land was ruled by monsters.
Once upon a time, the rabbits all got sick...
Once upon a time in the land of upper east, a beautiful girl fled from a beast.
Because once upon a time, the women who lived in our town were said to have certain... special gifts.
Once Upon A Time 2x15 - The Queen is Dead Original air date March 3, 2013
Once upon a time in the land called Upper East, a beautiful girl met a beast.
Once upon a time in the thick deep forest...
Once upon a time, the oceanographer went out on the wide-open sea... to find out what was in the stomach of the great blue whale.
Once upon a time, the great hero Huma Dragonbane led the Knights of Solamnia against the evil dragons of Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness.

One epon the time

This phrase is incorrect and not used in English.

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That wasn't easy... because it was the time of the ghetto... the time of the so-called Aryan side... the time of danger, the time of armbands... when being a Jew or not being a Jew... meant life or death.
The time for processing shall not take more than thirty minutes except where the time when the trade notification becomes effective permits to extend the time for processing up to two hours.
You start thinking about the time that you've wasted and the time that you have left to serve and the time that you have left to live.
Now is not the time for simply delivering speeches, but now is the time to implement those speeches and this is the time for delivering action.
Now is the time, we believe, to cool it; the time for cool heads and calm reflection; the time for a renewed but deepened commitment to resorting and sustaining the peace.
Now is the time for courage, decisiveness and statesmanlike behaviour; now is the time for peace in the Middle East; now is the time for democracy in the Arab countries.
Mr President, President Lincoln said you can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Measure the time it takes for the gas to flow through the column from the time it is injected to the time the peak appears (tM).
The time for justice, the time for freedom and the time for equality...
And, of course, in real life, it's all dynamic, meaning that it's changing all the time, so the patterns of pulses are changing all the time because the world you're looking at is changing all the time too.
It may establish the time limits for receipt of tenders and requests to participate, the time allowed for access to invitation to tender documents and the time limits in urgent cases.
Considering the time limits for the talks, and the time limits for ratification by each of the Member States, now is the time to wish to achieve and to actually achieve a real reform.
And the time available is the interval between the time of making the announcement and the time at which I have to put the motion to the vote, after inviting Members to speak for or against it.
Press this button to configure the time bar font. The time bar is the widget that shows the hours in the agenda view. This button will open the "Select Font" dialog, allowing you to choose the hour font for the time bar.
"no shoes in the time machine," and "no eating in the time machine," I propose we add "pants must be worn at all times in the time machine."
"delay" means the time difference between the time the passenger was scheduled to arrive in accordance with the published timetable and the time of his or her actual or expected arrival;
successively the passing beam one third of the time, the driving beam(s) one third of the time and the front fog lamp for one third of the time specified in paragraph 1.1 above.
successively the passing beam one third of the time, the driving beam(s) one third of the time and the front fog lamp for one third of the time specified in paragraph 1.1 above.
'delay' means the time difference between the time the passenger was scheduled to arrive in accordance with the published timetable and the time of his or her actual or expected arrival;
the passing beam one third of the time, the driving beam(s) one third of the time and the front fog lamp for one third of the time specified in paragraph 1.1.

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Once upon the time vs One epon the time