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often

When something happens often, that means that it happens many times and frequently. I drink a lot of water and need to urinate often. How often do you exercise? I often visit my elderly aunt Grace. It's often difficult to learn a new language.

often

many times at short intervals we often met over a cup of coffee (= much) frequently or in great quantities I don't drink much I don't travel much in many cases or instances

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Topics often topics

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Simple sentences

How often do you go abroad?
How often a week do you take a bath?
When I was a child, my mother would often read fairy tales to me.
If Mary knew how to swim, she would go to the beach more often.
Mary would often sit alone on the porch.
Peter and I would often go to the movies.
The old lady will often wait for her son in vain at the station.
How often do you wash your car a month?
Recently even students have come to visit foreign countries quite often.
I would often go swimming in the sea when a child.
When I was a child, I would often call on him on Sunday.
Children often hate spinach.
I live near the sea so I often get to go to the beach.
Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.
Spenser's mother often scrutinizes him for every small mistake he makes.
People are often quite skeptical about things unless given believable proof.
Never lose sight of the importance of a beautiful sunrise, or watching your kids sleep, or the smell of rain. It's often the small things that really matter in life.
All the king's subjects, fearing his wrath, often acted quite servile.
I often think about the place where I met you.
Fantasy is often the mother of art.
In recent years, they have often moved.
How often do you feed the fish?
Trains come more often than buses.
Patients often die simply because they yield to their diseases.
The best is often the enemy of the good.
Thermometers often go below zero.
I often wrote to her when I was a student.
Though he lives within a stone's throw of the school, he is often late.
He will come with his wife, as is often the case with foreigners.
We often eat fish raw.

Movie subtitles

But then, often quite suddenly, they can collapse.
I'm probably, without knowing it, less lonely than I have been in a long time because I'm interacting with people more often than I have in many years.
Well, he's always changing his mind so often, so I'm not sure what's his real intention, but in my opinion, maybe he's very regretting about last night's incident.
I was worreid if they come to the office often as the new Magistrate is appointed.
I did come because you called a seance, but don't do this often. Got that?
What we'll be doing here is different than just using bokken. often used during practice matches Itakura will come!
Do you go there often?
She comes often.
You come here often?
We're often offered a drink to wet the baby's head and we're absolutely forbidden to accept it.
Excess perspiration is often a problem for ladies undergoing the change of life.
Often were the times Elsalill gazed upon those who passed by.
After that day, Sir Archie often ventured to Torarin's cottage to speak to Elsalill.
The Sabbath food was often prepared from corpses from the gallows.
It often happens to her.
Does the bandit come here often?
My daughter Carlotta, who is not easily conquered, spoke of him often, imagining his character.
These scenes are often found on famous Witch Sabbath pictures from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
The devils' companion can be young and beautiful, but she is more often old, poor and miserable.
I have personally known a very nervous young woman who often walked in her sleep.
The executioner often found insensitive areas on the back of the accused.
But do they not often suffer bitterly?
Amsler often cut through Jeanne Dutois' fields.
I'd like to remind the jury how often the defense has endured unjustified attacks from the prosecution.
See you often.
As soon as Hutter crossed the bridge he was seized by the eerie visions he so often told me of.
Ellen was often spotted on the beach in the solitude of the dunes.
How often are you down here?
How often do I have to tell you? Don't just speak.
I've often heard of you.
He often comes and goes by the back door of the laboratory, sir.

News and current affairs

Similar demands were heard all over Europe, where the anti-Nazi or anti-fascist resistance was often led by leftists, or indeed Communists, and prewar conservatives were frequently tainted by collaboration with fascist regimes.
These aspirations were often voiced in the United Nations, founded in 1945.
All too often, the fight is about turf, rather than about the most effective way to speed help to the poor.
After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock.
The data are uncertain: there have been many thousands of spills during this period - often poorly documented and their magnitude hidden or simply unmeasured by either the companies or the government.
European policymakers today often complain that, were it not for the US financial crisis, the eurozone would be doing just fine.
If they are fully informed of the risks, and are still willing to fly - perhaps the crew has been offered more money, as workers in dangerous occupations often are - should we prevent them from making the decision to fly?
But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.
Faced with a new EU initiative, our traditional response has often been to oppose it, vote against it, lose the vote, then sulkily to adopt it while blaming everyone else.
And, while conspiracy theories are often patently irrational, the questions they address are often healthy, even if the answers are frequently unsourced or just plain wrong.
Newspapers in most advanced countries are struggling or folding, and investigative reporting is often the first thing they cut.
To enhance credibility, a number of governments are gingerly moving towards creating fiscal councils with greater independence, often with central banks as a role model.
It is also often ignored.
What was true for the alchemists of yore remains true today: gold and reason are often difficult to reconcile.
But that is often the way that European integration proceeds: an incomplete step in one area later requires further steps in related areas.
Advocates of discriminatory measures often charge their opponents with stifling legitimate criticism of Israel.
Productivity growth increased substantially in these countries over time, which persuaded Continental Europe to adopt reforms of its own, often pushed by the European Commission.
Former perpetrators often try to de-legitimize their former victims' moral superiority by claiming they were victims themselves.

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