Every so often

Definition

often /'ɒfn, 'ɒftǝn; US 'ↄ:fn/ adv ( -er, -est ) ၁။ ခဏခဏ။ မၾကာမၾကာ။ မၾကာခဏ။ We often go there. ❍ We have often been there. ❍ We've been there quite often. ❍ It very often rains here in April. ❍ I hope to visit you oftener in future. ❍ How often (ie At what intervals) do the buses run? ၂။ ေယဘုယ်အားျဖင့္။ Old houses are often damp. ❏ as often as not; more often than not [ IDM ] မၾကာခဏ။ မၾကာမၾကာ။ Even when it's fine the buses are late more often than not. ❏ every so often [ IDM ] တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ။ တစ္ခါတစ္ခါ။ ရံဖန္ရံခါ။

Examples

1. Often
2. students with family problems have difficulties at school.
3. Boredom often leads to poor behaviour.
4. The home is often the most likely place to have an accident.
5. [fairly/quite often] : I’ve found that it’s quite often impossible to park in town.
6. [very often] : Very often it turns out that the student hasn’t understood the question.
7. [often enough] : I’ve already told you not to argue often enough.
8. I’ve been swimming twice as often as I did last year.
9. [how often?] : How often do you eat meat?
10. [fairly/quite often] : I go to the gym quite often.