Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] often [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strach has been on his last legs for the past 2 seasons and while he still produces high quality performances more often than not he is looking more tired with each game he plays , not suprising for someone of his age . |
| 2 | I had an instant picture of this docile boat now chugging at nine knots with a following wind on a choppy but inland loch , far out in the North Sea bucking and corkscrewing , the bow sickeningly below the waves as often as not . |
| 3 | Beginning in 1910 , it put on performances as often as once a month , at which texts from , for example , Nietzsche , Rilke , Wedekind , and others were read . |
| 4 | Only 5 per cent of the children saw their parents as often as once a month ; 41 per cent had no parental contact . |
| 5 | But such remarks were commonplace and were made by ardent church reformers as often as by anyone else . |
| 6 | They were all very sharp and attentive , prepared to go back over scenes or lines as often as was required , patient when Charles lost the line , encouraging when he got a flow of dialogue working . |
| 7 | A hands-on procedure is followed , not only in the studio but at the site , where I build full-scale mock-ups as often as I can . |
| 8 | This time the Americans have been talking to negotiators as often as three times a day , sitting with one side and then another to explore positions on such controversial issues as the disposition of authority over West Bank land . |
| 9 | She could invent hypotheses as often as she sipped her tepid coffee . |
| 10 | These specially created ideologies more often than not give the believer a clear place in the scheme of things , by providing a definite identity . |
| 11 | Also it is not advisable to have X-rays more often than is really needed . |
| 12 | Also it is not advisable to have X-rays more often than is really needed . |
| 13 | The failure rate of the undersea cables which would carry the electricity generated back to shore was said to be 300 times more often than an initial consultants ' report had suggested . |
| 14 | Teachers have been found to attend to disruptive , inattentive ( 'off-task' ) behaviour in their classrooms three times more often than they attend to appropriate behaviour . |
| 15 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |
| 16 | Over all , the white actor was preferred ten times more often than the black one . |
| 17 | While chromatic notes more often than not make his harmony directional , they are never used to excess and always relate to the words . |
| 18 | More recently — in our era of politicised art — artists more often than not include texts in their works just in case you do n't get the point . |
| 19 | The other main reason is that , having been sidelined by Neil Kinnock last year into the job of transport , Mr Prescott has found himself appearing on the early-evening television and radio bulletins more often than any other member of the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 20 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 21 | Just eleven players since 1905 have appeared in Palace colours more often than Vince but , in reviewing his career with us , one is left with the feeling that , while it promised to climb the highest peaks of success , it in fact merely reached the approaches . |
| 22 | the trouble is not having enough modern catalogues of , of things that you can actually buy today because when they manufacturer them now they do n't erm make catalogues as often as they used to do er , it costs so much money in it I 'd er , I , I think that probably the next trend is going to be in lighting fittings er which will take in er you er , low energy lamps er , at the erm , the new fluorescent lamps er where erm , well there 's one in the hall which takes eight watts and it 's given us as much light out as a hundred watt lamp , er and |
| 23 | From there it can be made available to the required analysis program(s) as often as necessary . |
| 24 | But in practice they award half-points more often than full points because , I suspect , they want to be seen to have a high standard . |
| 25 | He half wondered if she 'd arranged it ; women do n't get invited to these things as often as men . |
| 26 | ( You are rarely able to sample rhythms as often as you would like. ) ( a ) Are your 4 hours of observations made in a single session or a number of sessions ? ( b ) If it is a single session , is this at the same time or at different times each day ? ( c ) If it is at different times , then how do you arrange them ? ( d ) If it is a number of sessions , then how many ? |
| 27 | Unsurprisingly , Zeng 's childhood was not a happy one , and he played truant from his persecutors as often as he could . |
| 28 | buy organic fruit , vegetables , cereal products , meat , dairy produce and free range poultry and eggs as often as possible . |
| 29 | The decisions of Margaret Thatcher 's ministers are struck down by the courts as often as were those of the Wilson or Callaghan administrations . |
| 30 | Since the mite demands food more than three times as often as the host would usually offer it to the larvae , it 's no surprise that an infected ant abandons all its usual duties in the nest while carrying the mite . |