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occasionally English

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occasionally

If something happens occasionally, then it happens sometimes, but not often. I occasionally get nosebleeds when I fly. He's occasionally late, but most of the time he is prompt.

occasionally

(= on occasion, now and then, now and again) now and then or here and there he was arrogant and occasionally callous open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees they visit New York on occasion now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention

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Simple sentences

There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally.
He occasionally visited me.
They visited me occasionally.
He occasionally reads detective novels.
Her husband occasionally pauses mid-sentence, and then simply leaves.
Tom doesn't mind helping Mary occasionally.
We will visit you occasionally.
Occasionally, things don't go as planned.
He likes going to the beach occasionally.
Although I broke test tubes and played about with chemicals for fun, I did occasionally manage to obey the teacher's instructions as well; repeating experiments that others had long ago undertaken.
I run into Tom occasionally.
Duplicate sentences are occasionally created on Tatoeba. The deduplication bot, Horus, generally takes care of them.
That only happens occasionally.
Even the best tennis players shank their shots occasionally.

Movie subtitles

Hank was a mining engineer who lived alone and occasionally went on long expeditions into the Far North.
He does some stooling for us occasionally.
After office hours, I occasionally make an exception.
He goes occasionally to the country of his origin.
Sort of, but occasionally we get the breezes.
Occasionally I wish I were young again.
He used to come to see us only occasionally, and now he's in Booklyn six nights a week.
And occasionally Ruth came along, but never Mother.
Occasionally we run across a witness who refuses to tell us what we want to know, except under pressure.
When I first came here, I used to cry occasionally. I've gotten over that.
Yet it may seem to us that he occasionally takes on more than he can manage.
Occasionally, however, we find a patient who can't wake up.
She helps me out in my business occasionally.
Oh, no, Anita. Occasionally, I even read one of my books.
Why don't you go out dancing with him occasionally?
Managed to get away from the excitement occasionally, huh?
He used to come to see us only occasionally, and now he's in Brooklyn six nights a week.
Tonight, would you be so good as to glance occasionally at my baton?
You could be the sideshow barker occasionally.
It occasionally happens. that by accident a youth is pushed towards a milieu to which he isn't suited.
It was. Sometimes Neumann. Occasionally Gunter.
You might as well know, some of us get out of line occasionally.
Go occasionally to somebody else.
I manage to slip away occasionally.
Is that so? When I'm drink, occasionally, very occasionally, I become another person, or another thing.
For instance, one occasionally likes a drink.
Occasionally. What?
However, I won't say that I'll not take charge occasionally.
What is it? Tonight, would you be so good as to glance occasionally at my baton?
A glass of the old and crusted occasionally.
You might as well know, some of us get out of line occasionally. But remember this. For the first time in history, you are asking the same generation of soldiers to be both valorous and wise.
Occasionally, I even read one of my books.
Do me a favor. Go occasionally to somebody else.
In March, a blue sky shows behind the clouds. Occasionally there is thunder.

News and current affairs

Despite the high-born image Eban projected, he was an extremely vulnerable person: what some occasionally discerned as traits of vanity may have had their origins in his humble origins.
When it occasionally does, even for a short interval - as UN Resolution 1701 for cessation of hostilities in Lebanon seems to be holding - it is time to take stock of events in the hopes that a responsible debate may influence those in power.
And they still occasionally find themselves in situations in which their debt has become unsustainable and they need outside help to continue to meet their debt-service obligations.
At the same time, during the World Cup, fans are not only universal; they are also unique, and they can express their difference with impunity, sometimes in the most assertive, aggressive, and, unfortunately, occasionally racist manner.
Occasionally Blair flirts with the idea of more European cooperation on foreign policy and defense.
Pakistani parents occasionally maim their children to make them beguiling beggars.
Making matters worse, market and monetary reforms have occasionally merged, with rule-making becoming partly dependent on the decisions of disparate agencies and institutions.
Speaking from personal experience, I have to say that they can, because even I, a professional economist, have occasionally had to stop myself from making exactly the same error.
Of course, these figures surged occasionally during that period, such as after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; but the overall decline is considerable.
Occasionally, America has experimented with free-market ideology and deregulation--sometimes with disastrous effects.
Natural talents should be respected for what they are: the occasionally awesome luck of the biological draw.
Russia occasionally cuts off its gas, and many of its four million people have left the country.
But the fact remains that both Abkhaz and South Ossetian leaders have occasionally approached Russia with annexation requests.
And although these differences may grow smaller with time, they occasionally take on an alarmingly clear-cut form, as in the case of the United States-led invasion of Iraq.
Only occasionally do we get uplifting, things-are-getting-better stories.
Sarkozy is right that leverage is not necessarily good just because the free market allows it, and that speculators occasionally act in a destabilizing way.
Occasionally, China's government takes action against local officials whose crimes are considered egregious.
When media outlets aren't owned - and tamed - by the authorities or people close to them, they still face censorship, intimidation, tax audits, and occasionally assassination of their journalists and editors.
Although wars, conflicts, and atrocities continued, the global powers tried, and occasionally managed - albeit chaotically and usually late - to stop the killing.
It will be prolonged and occasionally very tense, but eventually result in appreciation of the renminbi.
It did not matter that these youthful hawkers, some no more than seven or eight years old, were often arrested, beaten, and locked up for weeks, occasionally months.
More problematic, he has occasionally dissented publicly from Leung's various misguided policies.

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