Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] often [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parties of up to 23 have been involved and , in general Avocets , are now likely to be met in small parties quite as often as singly in the county . |
| 2 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 3 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 4 | She also found no food preferences associated with shell colour ( i.e. pigmented whelks did not select mussels any more often than white ones did ) . |
| 5 | The unavailability of legal aid for libel has been defended on the basis that it would bring " over the fence " disputes to court ( the poor being assumed to quarrel in crowded tenements rather more often than the rich accuse one another of cheating at cards ) but the inequity is so glaring that the argument for extending legal aid to defamation actions is difficult to resist . |
| 6 | Members leave their mallets here as often as not do they ? |
| 7 | It was also unusual to have the batsman complain about seals swimming behind the bowler 's arm , but at least this allowed us to stop for drinks even more often than we had done the day before . |
| 8 | A majority of his sample reported that the wife typically performed a distinct range of domestic and child-rearing tasks considerably more often than the husband , and also that she deferred to the husband in more important areas of decision-making . |
| 9 | Drums much less often than Great Spotted . |
| 10 | found that when right handers were asked to look to the left while hearing such sets of words , decisions were made on non-semantic grounds significantly more often than when subjects looked to the right . |