unfrequently
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For, Madison goes on to write: “It is not unfrequently a question of real nicety in legislative bodies, whether the operation of a particular measure will, or will not, extend beyond the legislative sphere.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
She not unfrequently stopped at the Parsonage, and had a few minutes’ conversation with Charlotte, but was scarcely ever prevailed upon to get out.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
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In female patients an attack of dengue not unfrequently causes the reappearance of the menstrual flow, while the pains attending the disease equally predispose to premature labor in pregnant women.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Shortly afterwards, however, came the reverse of the medal, which not unfrequently occurs.
From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
It is true they must have resorted, not unfrequently, to curter forms, much after the fashion of the now almost forgotten nick forms of the Plantagenet days.
From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Charles W. Bardsley