Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] often [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 2 | The decisions of Margaret Thatcher 's ministers are struck down by the courts as often as were those of the Wilson or Callaghan administrations . |
| 3 | I had an instant picture of this docile boat now chugging at nine knots with a following wind on a choppy but inland loch , far out in the North Sea bucking and corkscrewing , the bow sickeningly below the waves as often as not . |
| 4 | They have played the roles so often that the women must be part of their lives . |
| 5 | Erm there 's the legendary Doctor Keat of Eton who er was was erm legendary precisely because he beat the boys so often and so vigorously . |
| 6 | It is also worth noting that parents briefed the assistants more often than professionals such as educational psychologists , doctors , speech and physiotherapists . |
| 7 | ‘ A number of teams do not have a conceptual understanding of a balance of a game and appreciate just how you can involve the backs as often as possible . |
| 8 | From experience and there are also the occasions very often when you 're , if you like , force fed . |