Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adj] intervals " in BNC.

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1 The fog-horn , its sound now muffled by the houses , continued to bleat at regular intervals .
2 It means that the stressed syllables in an utterance tend to come at regular intervals with a varying number of less stressed syllables in between .
3 In the store room next to the kitchen were a long table and shelves always covered with all sorts of provisions ; large earthenware jars full of confits of pork and goose , a small barrel where vinegar slowly matured , a bowl where honey oozed out of the comb , jams , preserves of sorrel and of tomatoes , and odd bottles with grapes and cherries marinating in brandy ; next to the table a weighing machine on which I used to stand at regular intervals ; sacks of haricot beans , of potatoes ; eggs , each one carefully dated in pencil .
4 The mist still limited visibility to less than a hundred yards and the fog-horn continued to blare at regular intervals .
5 Taught to advance at two-pace intervals — against guns that fired two hundred and fifty bullets a minute .
6 Not long after this , Lewis and Williams met in London , as they continued to do at irregular intervals for the next three years .
7 However , he is likely to need to rest at frequent intervals .
8 During conventional manometric studies of oesophageal motility , the patient is asked to swallow at regular intervals to record deglutitive responses in the lower oesophageal sphincter and oesophageal body .
9 In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals .
10 In this case it is syllables ( rather than stressed syllables ) that tend to occur at regular intervals , thus giving the language a staccato rhythm .
11 In this particular case , however , there was no such conformity ; the attacks seemed to occur at random intervals and in many differing situations .
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