Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [adv] often [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 5 per cent of the children saw their parents as often as once a month ; 41 per cent had no parental contact . |
| 2 | McKeown and his colleagues blame the general hospitals for killing their patients more often than relieving them , at least until the 1875 public Health Act . |
| 3 | She discards her admirers as often as she discards gloves , and poor Mama spends most of her time comforting the latest reject . |
| 4 | The matter is complicated by the fact that across the social spectrum some families changed their surnames as often as their surcoats , and individuals had , in the course of their lives , sometimes as many as three or four surnames , any of which could be adopted quite haphazardly by their progeny . |
| 5 | Unsurprisingly , Zeng 's childhood was not a happy one , and he played truant from his persecutors as often as he could . |
| 6 | But the spirited kid who used to wear a badge proclaiming Born To Raise Hell was also in trouble with his teachers more often than not . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , England coach Dick Best pledged : ‘ We will carry the ball in our hands as often as possible against Wales . |
| 8 | Perhaps I am in your thoughts as often as you are in mine dearest Elsie . |