Example sentences of "from time to time " in BNC.
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| 61 | No new members of the board were elected , though the odd family friend was co-opted from time to time . |
| 62 | From time to time the authorities got wind of these breaches of regulations and punished clubs , but they did not regularly inspect the books and revelations of extra payments tended to emerge as a result of other inquiries . |
| 63 | Many of us try to improve our other halves from time to time — perhaps you wish he were tidier while he would prefer you a little slimmer . |
| 64 | They are very much a two-career couple and , although the work overlaps from time to time , they have two very distinct careers , which take them in different directions . |
| 65 | They argue from time to time , they get tired and cross and let stress get the better of them , like any other couple , but the union is essentially a happy one . |
| 66 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
| 67 | From time to time she glanced a little apprehensively at the numbered board with its blank bulbs . |
| 68 | He would be back from time to time , but never again as a mendicant . |
| 69 | From time to time diate experience into this wider context . |
| 70 | Said Hiddink : ‘ He hardly speaks Dutch and that leads to misunderstandings from time to time . ’ |
| 71 | The parents separated from time to time and the father also served a prison sentence . |
| 72 | The United States would dive in from time to time with a huge splash which , however , would soon subside . |
| 73 | From time to time , national spin doctors — or ‘ medecins du spin ’ , as we say around here — would emerge to say something or nothing at inordinate and chauvinistic length . |
| 74 | The forwards exerted pressure from time to time , with Thompson and the substitute Garcia both going close to scoring . |
| 75 | FROM time to time Fifa , the governing body of world football , comes up with ideas for improving the game , some better than others . |
| 76 | A Downing Street spokeswoman yesterday sought to play down the significance of the meeting , saying : ‘ The Prime Minister sees all sorts of people from time to time to talk about issues that interest her . ’ |
| 77 | They are imperfect players in an imperfect democracy ; and they are there , from time to time , to write and investigate things that the closed worlds of the British professions would grind their teeth over . |
| 78 | They are imperfect players in an imperfect democracy ; and they are there , from time to time , to write and investigate things that the closed worlds of the British professions would grind their teeth over . |
| 79 | FROM time to time all games go through a golden era ; a time when great players perform great deeds on the great stages of sport . |
| 80 | From time to time they shed meteorites and the odd one will make a small , exotic dent on the surface of pop . |
| 81 | Ad hoc alliances of green organizations take place from time to time , and at the end of 1988 Greenpeace , Friends of the Earth and the World Wide Fund for Nature jointly threw down a ‘ green gauntlet ’ to the government , urging it to turn propaganda about the environment into action . |
| 82 | Bring the soup to the boil , stirring from time to time , then simmer slowly for 45–60min , until the vegetables are soft and the lentils have cooked and thickened the soup . |
| 83 | He does not begin to describe what the effect was on Russia of by-passing the Reformation , the Counter-reformation and the Enlightenment ; instead , in an effort to be friendly , he mentions things Russian from time to time . |
| 84 | He acted as go-between postman , and from time to time he walked with Helen across and around the Common and talked to her a great deal about Edward . |
| 85 | The Chancery , i.e. the Chancellor 's office , has a power ( Statute of Westminster II 1285 ) of framing new writs in cansimili casu — i.e. to meet new cases sufficiently like those for which writs already exist — and new writs are from time to time framed . |
| 86 | The nature and degree of insanity which will afford a defence to a criminal charge has from time to time been a matter of considerable discussion . |
| 87 | The marks of a corporation are : perpetual succession , i.e. the death or withdrawal of members , or the addition of new members from time to time , does not impair the continuity and identity of the body : ‘ in like manner ’ , as Blackstone says , ‘ the river Thames is still the same river , though the parts which comprise it are changing every instant' ; the use of a common seal as evidence of at least the more formal acts of the corporation ; and the capacity to sue and be sued by its corporate name . |
| 88 | From time to time , she too takes a sip of wine , gazing blankly at the bar , the barman and , beyond , the dance-floor , where sharp-featured Polish men and their pleasingly plump girlfriends boogie decorously to the strains of a bored rock trio . |
| 89 | For my part I am not condemning , I am illustrating the fact that the Christian symbiosis between nature and humankind , expressed so well in the Bible , has from time to time been replaced by man 's domination of nature with disastrous consequences for both . |
| 90 | From time to time he would visit his family in Germany and when he left in July 1939 everyone assumed he would return . |