Example sentences of "often as not [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electricity was erratic in the old , two-up , two-down house and as often as not the children had gone to bed with candles . |
| 2 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 3 | In the small coal communities , the pit was as often as not the sole source of wage-earning incomes . |
| 4 | As often as not the examiner will have disagreed with the statement himself ; that is why he thought of setting it . |
| 5 | ‘ So you see , as often as not the left hand knoweth not what the right hand doeth . |
| 6 | Within the peasantry a sizeable body of commercial farmers undoubtedly developed — they were of substantial significance in Russia by the 1880s — but class differentiation was inhibited by various factors — racialism in the United States , the persistence of the organised village community in Russia — and as often as not the fully commercialised and capitalist rural sectors were outside traders or money-lenders ( commercial firms and banks ) . |