Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] often [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | It may be somewhat longer ( much less often than men claim or fantasise ) or , especially in some physical disorders , somewhat shorter . |
| 3 | Drums much less often than Great Spotted . |
| 4 | This looks almost inescapably like a type of variation according to the referential category represented by the noun — i.e. not really a matter of syntactic relation at all — and this impression is strengthened by his further remark , " Having provided for the two extremes of referent-modification and reference-modification , we can now assess the blending that frequently — perhaps more often than not — takes place between the two . " |
| 5 | Yes , although children pick them up much more often than adults do . |
| 6 | Others look for evidence of rituals and declare that ritualistic and satanic abuse is happening much more often than most people are prepared to believe . |
| 7 | ‘ Farmer Giles was backing his luck ’ , as people often do ; and it is common knowledge that while this is irrational it works much more often than mere ‘ chance ’ would dictate . |
| 8 | Not by any means always , but more often than not ; and much more often than most . |
| 9 | Sorrow and pain , on the other hand , are not at all essential ; there is no good reason for them and people seem to feel obliged to cry much more often than they laugh . |
| 10 | A direct question may not always be the ideal approach — a hint or oblique reference can sometimes be better — but a direct approach will gain response much more often than people think . |
| 11 | Goal directed search is useful much more often than this discussion suggests . |
| 12 | Context is relied on much more often than in English or Bali to establish time reference . |
| 13 | But she continued to go there regularly , somewhat more often than she went up to Willesden to see Daphne . |
| 14 | So as often as could be managed I went for trips with my father on the trams . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's just be together as often as we can , really get to know each other . |
| 16 | Let hair dry naturally as often as you can . |
| 17 | The Japanese would like such a declaration to involve regular summit meetings , perhaps as often as twice a year , between the Japanese prime minister and the Community president — like the informal meetings that Toshiki Kaifu has been having with President Bush . |
| 18 | If the mother or anyone else connected with the birthing process shows any signs of lack of trust , anxiety , fear , pain , etc. take one dose as often as needed , perhaps as often as every 10 minutes , of Rescue Remedy ( one of the Bach Flower remedies ) . |
| 19 | Perhaps as often as once a month , depending partly on the amount of dust in the air , you should get out the drive cleaning kit and service the heads in the way I 've described before trouble starts . |
| 20 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 21 | All too often when they cease to use a building , they simply lock the door and walk away . |
| 22 | However , all too often when two-spit digging is recommended , the point that is not made clear is that we should be thinking primarily about the needs of the plants that are to grow in the dug soil . |
| 23 | All too often though , the critical enthusiasm is immense , while the actual critical judgement disappoints , and we are left with the feeling that good but minor work is being overpraised for polemical reasons . |
| 24 | But John , he noticed , tended to wander outside as often as he felt tempted to do ; while Astorre had set up house quite candidly in the kitchens . |
| 25 | He responded by calling her darling rather more often than was natural . |
| 26 | Best distinction is song , more like Skylark and Short-toed Lark ( p 201 ) , and still more mimetic , delivered either in a fluttering circular display flight , followed by an earthward plummet or , rather more often than Crested Lark , from a bush top or even a tree ; call sometimes disyllabic . |
| 27 | After you 've loaded your network drivers ( which are memory hungry ) , ANSI.SYS , SMARTDRV.SYS , RAMDRV.SYS , MOUSE.COM , EGA.SYS , EMM386.EXE , CD ROM drivers , Sound card drivers and a few other bits and bobs , not to mention your memory resident anti-virus software , you can find yourself getting the ‘ not enough memory to run xxxxxx.exe ’ rather more often than you 'd like . |
| 28 | ££ the House that I have given way rather more often than the Leader of the Opposition did . |
| 29 | The unavailability of legal aid for libel has been defended on the basis that it would bring " over the fence " disputes to court ( the poor being assumed to quarrel in crowded tenements rather more often than the rich accuse one another of cheating at cards ) but the inequity is so glaring that the argument for extending legal aid to defamation actions is difficult to resist . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought Bluebeard was married rather more often than usual , ’ she said tartly , something constricting in the region of her heart . |