Example sentences of "seldom that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 2 | It was seldom that there was an aircraft missing after a raid , so gone were the days of losing seven familiar faces two or three times a week . |
| 3 | Lima , where it rains so seldom that the city 's roofs are not designed to withstand more than a mild shower , the inhabitants are anxiously awaiting the worst . |
| 4 | It was so seldom that Aggie heard herself addressed by her surname that she turned and looked at the nun , but the woman 's eyelids were lowered as if in shame ; then she inclined her head towards the woman sitting behind the desk before turning and closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 5 | Even though there are signs that the world 's economies are beginning to operate closer together in time terms , nevertheless in the past it has been seldom that every part of the world has been simultaneously in total depression . |
| 6 | It is seldom that a week passes by without my having several letters on the same theme . |
| 7 | This was the language of the Conservative Right , and it is seldom that it synchronizes with the tenets of the reformist Left . |
| 8 | What I do n't want is to do it so seldom that he gets angry ; because he does if he has to wait too long . |
| 9 | It was but seldom that the entrance to his palace was without a corpse . |
| 10 | No , because er I always put it down to the fact that most of our takings were in coin , it was very seldom that you had a pound note , you possibly had a ten pound note in those days but most of it was coinage and the cash when it was married up , was put into steel bound wooden boxes . |
| 11 | It will be relatively seldom that a buyer will agree to buy a spes . |
| 12 | … it is seldom that an appeal from its decision will lie . |
| 13 | We , very seldom that we have boiled potatoes but if I wanted a potato I think to cover all the needs to keep , I would go for Desiree because that one will fit almost any bill at all , it 'll do everything , it 's the best all round potato , late potato that I have ever grown and eaten . |
| 14 | Every fact and circumstance must be considered and it will probably be seldom that any single one is determinative . |
| 15 | It was seldom that we could get through this protecting screen to reach the observation aircraft . ’ |