Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] often [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies of rhetoric are now becoming more frequent in a variety of fields , but perhaps most often in studies of science . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He could not have milked a cow , and he poked pigs much more often in cartoons than in the farmyard . |
| 4 | Investors in the USM as in OTC stocks dealt all too often on grounds of glamour , as distinct from sound track record and figures . |
| 5 | ALL too often in Africa , outsiders give charity with one hand and deliver a slap with the other . |
| 6 | All too often in politics we are handicapped by the fact that Mrs Jones has done something a certain way for twenty-seven years and therefore must be allowed to do it again this time . |
| 7 | Thus very often in practice we determine unc first and E afterwards , 2 . |
| 8 | The resistance was broken when a tiring Ratnayeke was superbly caught by the wicketkeeper Ian Healy , one-handed down the leg side , for 75 after flicking once too often at Greg Campbell . |
| 9 | He pulled this trick once too often against Debre , and was horrified one morning to see the Prime Minister sitting in the witness box , waiting to be cross-examined . |
| 10 | It seems that Julia 's irritated remarks have been heard once too often by Karen and Sarah , and some angry comments have recently been made . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Finally , you can also visit the extremely elegant First Empire stud-farm , in the middle of the town , where the Tarbais horses , ridden in the old days by French cavalrymen and today more often by tourists , have long been bred . |
| 13 | Skin abscesses due to injecting , however , were reported significantly more often by drug users who seroconverted compared to controls negative for HIV . |
| 14 | Painful bowel movements during the initial evaluation were reported significantly more often in children who recovered than in the soiling group ( p<0.005 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Too damned often for comfort , ’ he said irritably . |