Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] [prep] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century .
2 The identity of the price leader had changed from time to time with no obvious pattern .
3 The phone continued to ring from time to time ; messengers continued to call .
4 One was the periodic factor that wages did increase from time to time -and the other was what he called the adjustment factor which meant that a time might come in any industry when a distortion or trend had to be recognized as such for correction .
5 At first their mother 's sister had come from time to time but she and Moran had quarrelled .
6 I never established anything like a friendship with him , but our paths did cross from time to time .
7 Doctors from the hospital told the coroner that although it was ’ highly unusual ’ for such a thing to occur , such complications did arise from time to time .
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