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.

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A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. Fables by Aesop View in context 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. Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context 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. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context			from pillar to post from rags to riches from scratch from sea to shining sea from side to side from soup to nuts from start to finish from stem to stern from the bottom of heart from the corner of eye from the cradle to the grave from the ground up from the heart from the horse's mouth from the old school from the outset from the ridiculous to the sublime from the sublime to the ridiculous From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step from the top from the word go from the year dot from there to here from this day on from time immemorial from time to time from tip to toe from top to bottom from top to toe from way back front front for front off front on front some amount of money front-runner frost frost over frosted froth up frown frown at frown on fruit fruitcake fruition fruits of labor fry fry up frye fuck			from the river from the start from the sublime to the ridiculous From the sublime to the ridiculous is only a step From the Top from the very first from the very first from the very first from the very first from the word go from the word go from the word go from the word go from the word go from the year dot from the year one from then on From Then Until From Then Until from thence from thenceforth from there to here from thin air from this cause from this day forward from this day forward from this day on From This Moment On from this time on From Time Immemorial from time to time from tip to toe from top to bottom from top to toe from top to toe From UML to Java and Back Again From Under the Cork Tree From Unreliable Sources From Vineyards Direct From Violence to Wholeness From War to Peace from way back from way back From What I Can See From What I Can Tell From What I Hear From What I Read From What I Recall From What I Understand from whence From Where I Sit Anyway From Where I Stand From Where I Stand From Wishes to Eternity From Yellow to Orange From Your Pocket To Ours from-to tester

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