Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] often " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gironella 's solution was entirely individual : to focus on the art of the European past , looming large as it did in Latin American consciousness regardless of how often it had been declared dead and buried by Europeans . |
| 2 | Her idea was to stick a piece of Sellotape between your eyebrows for an afternoon to make yourself aware of how often you frowned , so that you would know to do it less . |
| 3 | In view of how often overdoses result from relationship problems it is not surprising that the most effective treatment of self-poisoners often occurs in conjoint therapy with the partner or in family therapy . |
| 4 | I suppose there must be some records in a dusty file somewhere of how often the ground crews lost the race against time and had the aircraft and bombs blow up in front of them , but as far as I can recollect this never happened at Bourn , at least not while I was there , and we were thankful to get through each busy night without catastrophes of that kind . |
| 5 | Simple charts of how often certain behaviours occur can start to illuminate the picture of what happens at home ( Herbert 1981 ; McAuley and McAuley 1977 ) . |
| 6 | Two bespectacled scientists , doing an early season wasp count , were about to head back to the far end of the lake with their analyses of how often the summer visitors would be stung that year . |
| 7 | Well of course I ca n't possibly give you any figure of how often , but bullying occasionally happens in the Army . |
| 8 | Even if it does happen , it does not force the conclusion that speaker 1 has monitored speaker 2 's speech and made an assessment of how often speaker 2 uses that variant . |
| 9 | An observer quickly loses count of how often she welcomes callers with ‘ Good morning , Courtaulds , Betts & Company ’ but the records reveal all . |
| 10 | That ruled out using the traditional aluminium-based tubes in favour of all-plastic laminated tubes that retain their shape regardless of how often they are squeezed . |
| 11 | They will have to answer for the team 's performances and can expect to be closely questioned on how often they saw those performances . |
| 12 | Their income would depend on how often their patented technique was used . |
| 13 | — Try to keep a check on how often it is used and get feedback on how it went . |
| 14 | Something ineradicable happens and assumptions are made about kindness or fidelity — based on how often the ratchet has snapped . |
| 15 | There is not limit to how often a shoe can be resoled or repaired , provided it retains support from the upper and midsole . |
| 16 | But there are no recommendations given as to how often it should be used , which type of salt it requires to recharge it or any recommendations as to often to recharge it . |
| 17 | There is , of course , a limit to how often this can be done in English . |
| 18 | While Naomi reads a fat paperback in the parked taxi outside , the psychotherapist ( Mitteleuropean Earth Mother , in a book-lined Hampstead house that smells of the world 's best coffee ) poses questions on everything from Rainbow 's grief at her parents ' early deaths to how often she was scolded in primary school . |
| 19 | THERE is a limit to how often history can be expected to repeat itself . |
| 20 | The amount of money held by an individual to finance these transactions , therefore , is likely to depend on the size of the individual 's money income and on institutional arrangements , such as how often the individual is paid and how often he pays his bills and engages in monetary transactions . |
| 21 | We do not know enough about how often acidic reservoirs occur . |
| 22 | The underlying quarrel in marriage is frequently about how often each can be allowed to be the baby . |
| 23 | If this does n't occur with a relatively simple system like the peripheral mechanisms controlling appetite , there must be some doubt about how often this condition is satisfied in the central nervous system . |
| 24 | But this creates difficult administrative problems about how often official valuations of property values are revised . |
| 25 | Also , when words are syntactically ambiguous ( i.e. they can have more than one grammatical tag ) the corpus can provide information about how often each of the possible tags is used for that word . |
| 26 | This question about how often you exercise and get sweaty is ridiculous . |
| 27 | The second point is more difficult , for how often in the social sciences do we have ‘ complete knowledge ’ of a cause/effect relationship ? |
| 28 | Having been a subscriber from your first issue , I find myself already amazed at how often I refer to my various back numbers . |
| 29 | You will not always get a reply but you may be surprised at how often you do . |
| 30 | You may also be surprised at how often they say he is still there ! |