Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] from time to time " in BNC.

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1 The image of public service was strong although from time to time a recognition of the public relations benefits was made by the solicitors we interviewed :
2 Of course , I am delighted that from time to time the Garda find some of it .
3 And enjoys a perfect night 's sleep — deep , clear , and refreshing , like gliding down through sunlit water on a hot day ; such a perfect night 's sleep that he is entirely unconscious of how much he is enjoying it , or of its depth , clarity , and refreshingness , or its resemblance to gliding through sunlit water on a hot day ; so perfect that from time to time he half wakes , just enough to become conscious of how unconscious of everything he is .
4 Raymond was witty and unusual and from time to time he was invited to drink coffee at the artists ' cafés .
5 Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for .
6 They know the job is challenging and from time to time frustrating : they probably would n't have it any other way .
7 She was holding herself so stiff that from time to time she trembled .
8 Against this background it is not surprising that from time to time the relationship is productive of misunderstandings , mistrust and conflict .
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