Example sentences of "more often [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that the sultans were more often at war than at peace with their Christian neighbours north of the Danube-Sava line , trade with Christendom flourished . |
| 2 | Other symptoms ( tremor , headache , and ‘ others ’ ) occurred more often with salmeterol 200 µg ( five , four , and 16 subjects respectively ) than with salmeterol 100 µg ( one , two , 10 ) , salmeterol 50 µg ( one , two , six ) , and placebo ( one , two , eight ) , though the differences were not significant . |
| 3 | Available either as different width fittings , such as with New Balance , or more often with variable lacing patterns . |
| 4 | Occasionally , perhaps , gerontophiliac tendencies account for the disruption of an engagement or marriage through attraction of one partner to the parent of the other ; but marriages are broken far more often through infatuation with a third party of a partner 's own age group , while attraction to an in-law may equally denote a need for a surrogate mother or father irrespective of true gerontophilia . |
| 5 | Song like Skylark ( p. 205 ) , but in shorter bursts , uttered more often on ground than in low circular owl-like song flights . |
| 6 | His arrival suggests that Mr Bush will appear more often on television , spend less time at his Maine seaside retreat , and less time playing with his dogs . |
| 7 | High , rocky alpine and sub-alpine meadows in summer generally not below 6000 ft. , from the mountains of eastern Turkey ( Taurus and Pontus ranges ) eastwards ; more often in rhododendron scrub than Caucasian Snowcock. 24 in. ( 61 cm . ) . |
| 8 | Voice similar , but call more disyllabic , and song less vigorous , though more often in song flight , with no final plumb drop . |
| 9 | His performance was suffering and could be found more and more often in saloon bars , pouring down whisky , and pouring out his life history to some new-found friend . |
| 10 | If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors . |
| 11 | Certainly , this has not been yielding the same profits as four years ago , but the Japanese are not entirely absent from the sale rooms nonetheless , even though more often in order to sell than to buy . |
| 12 | Elaine and Ethel and Nell and Mary — the Girls , as the two nans called them , fondly sometimes , but more often in despair of their ever growing up . |
| 13 | In 1900 they were no more often in poverty than the working class of any age , but by 1935 they had become significantly more vulnerable , and in 1950 the elderly comprised over two-thirds of all the poor . |
| 14 | This kind of worry is expressed more often in relation to the newer modular or semi-modular structures than the more traditional general degree which may have well-established patterns and requirements , but it nevertheless seems to be a widespread one . |
| 15 | Incredibly , this happens more often in rain and snow . |
| 16 | He speaks characteristically of his ‘ greed ’ as well as his need ; of his ‘ longing ’ as well as his belonging ( the latter more often by default — itself a mechanism of his alienation ) ; of passion as well as affection ; of fleshly appetites as well as the spiritual . |
| 17 | Skin abscesses due to injecting , however , were reported significantly more often by drug users who seroconverted compared to controls negative for HIV . |
| 18 | Skin abscesses due to injecting were reported more often by drug users who seroconverted than by controls but the selection of seroconverters who had probably used infected injecting equipment may have biased this result . |
| 19 | more often by medium , I do n't really know which one is best |
| 20 | Their guards have no training — the tendency to treat patients like animals comes more often from lack of knowledge and understanding than from deliberate cruelty . |
| 21 | Many of these predisposing factors are observed more often among drug users than among homosexual men . |