from time to time
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) Occasionally; sometimes; once in a while.
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, scene 3:
- I'll find out your man, / And he shall signify from time to time / Every good hap to you that chances here.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
- 1922, T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, ll.196-197:
- But at my back from time to time I hear / The sound of horns and motors.
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 3, scene 3:
- (legal) In whatever status exists at various times.attention en
- 2015, Richard Painter, Ann Holmes, Cases and Materials on Employment Law (page 90)
- This is another way of saying that the terms of the individual contracts are in part to be found in the agreed collective agreements as they exist from time to time […]
- 2015, Richard Painter, Ann Holmes, Cases and Materials on Employment Law (page 90)
- (obsolete) Continuously from one time to another; at all times, constantly.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book III, canto V:
- So was she trayned vp from time to time, / In all chast vertue, and true bounti-hed / Till to her dew perfection she was ripened.
- French: de temps en temps
- German: von Zeit zu Zeit
- Italian: di tanto in tanto, ogni tanto, di quando in quando
- Portuguese: de vez em quando
- Russian: вре́мя от вре́мени
- Spanish: de vez en cuando, a veces
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