very often

Example Sentences

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"Birds very often get caught in anti-drone nets or become entangled in fibre-optic cables, injuring their wings, and they suffer terribly," Iryna Snopko, the shelter's 63-year-old director told AFP.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

The original idea was that the president was unhappy with the fact that if you have state dinners, still, at the White House, very often they’ll put tents up on the lawn.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

She gives a forensic account of why the data and the facts we base our predictions on are always incomplete and very often of poor quality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

That means the S&P 500 was able to achieve a new record with only 2.4% of the index’s stocks at highs of their own, which isn’t something that happens very often.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 19, 2026

In a storm, when the air pressure sank, you had to offset that drop against the altimetric reading, and very often it was a crude rule-of-thumb calculation.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman