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once in a while

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“We expect things like this to occur once in a while due to the volume of tests.”

“I watched him in action and learned from him, and he handed me books once in a while,” Mayer says.

It’s been happening frequently for as long as I can remember, but Ma tells me that these natural disasters only used to happen once in a while.

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“There’s a lot of common questions that people ask but once in a while people ask some weird questions that are not coded in the system yet,” says Chan.

My wife is from Austin and her favorite restaurant opened up a place in L.A., so we go there every once in a while for a nice meal.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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