Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] often [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Thus very often in practice we determine unc first and E afterwards , 2 . |
| 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 | Skin abscesses due to injecting , however , were reported significantly more often by drug users who seroconverted compared to controls negative for HIV . |
| 6 | ‘ Too damned often for comfort , ’ he said irritably . |