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from time to time

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from time to time
irregularly; now and then; occasionally; sometimes; not predictably. From time to time, I like to go fishing instead of going to work. Bob visits us at our house from time to time.
See also: time

from time to time
if something happens or is done from time to time, it happens or is done sometimes, but not regularly From time to time we heard a rumble of thunder. We cycle into town from time to time.
See also: time

from time to time
sometimes He has been bothered from time to time by pain in his back.
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A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time.
Lord Dawlish, if he had been able to diagnose correctly the almost paternal attitude which had become his host's normal manner these days, would have been equally embarrassed but less startled, for conscience had already suggested to him from time to time that he had been guilty of a feeling toward Elizabeth warmer than any feeling that should come to an engaged man.
His assertion that a peculiarly susceptible subject may be kept in the realm of the unreal for weeks, months, and even years, dominated by whatever delusions and hallucinations the operator may from time to time suggest, is a trifle disquieting.
 
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