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Every so often   /ˈɛvəri soʊ ˈɔfən/   Listen
Every so often

adverb
1.
Occasionally.  Synonym: every now and then.






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"Every so often" Quotes from Famous Books



... peace. And it seems that, every so often, she has to fight for it. It was so when the Duke of Marlborough won his battles at Blenheim and Ramillies and Malplaquet. Then France was the strongest nation in Europe. And she tried to crush the others and dominate everything. If she had, she would have been strong ...
— Facing the German Foe • Colonel James Fiske

... Once in about every so often, it seems, little boys just have to get sick. Sometimes it is their own fault; sometimes the fault of the weather; and sometimes there doesn't seem to be any reason at all—except maybe germs. And who ever saw a real ...
— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... about every so often, it seems, little boys just have to get sick. Sometimes it is their own fault; sometimes the fault of the weather; and sometimes there doesn't seem to be any reason at all—except maybe germs. And who ...
— Half-Past Seven Stories • Robert Gordon Anderson

... liking identically the same things to eat, seasoned the identical way. We both liked to do the identical things, without a single exception. Perhaps one exception—he had a fondness in his heart for firearms that I could not share. (The gleam in his eyes when he got out his collection every so often to clean and oil it!) I liked guns, provided I did not have to shoot at anything alive with them; but pistols I just plain did not like at all. We rarely could pass one of these shooting-galleries without trying our luck at five cents for so many turns—at clay ...
— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker

... "And the congress will be composed of everyone in the family. No taxation without representation, you know—that is the American way of doing things. Everything that comes into the house has to pay a duty, so everyone in the family has a vote, and every so often the congress will meet ...
— The Cheerful Smugglers • Ellis Parker Butler



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