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

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1 Sporadic cases of the disease continued for some years and from time to time it was necessary to reopen the hospital for their reception .
2 He heard the tin bracelets jangling on her wrists and from time to time she bent her head close over her fists as though blowing on reluctant embers ; but it was some time before he realized that he , too , was naked , and that the hands of the Moi girl were stroking and chafing his own body .
3 I give these bibliographical details because from time to time I get asked for them by collectors and booksellers .
4 Lincoln University was white-tiled towers , variegated with violet tiles and orange tiles and from time to time acid-green tiles .
5 The screen displayed columns of figures against groups of code letters and from time to time Francis referred to these , scrolling the display on or back .
6 They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone .
7 He ensures that they get to the best conferences and from time to time will organize his own , bringing in the best speakers .
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