• Instead of the political articulation of alternatives, there is temporizing and, very occasionally, terror.

    NEWYORKER: Booted

  • There are signposts everywhere to make sure that tourists do not end up as lunch, but very occasionally they do.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Australia

  • The term describes small natural fireballs which very occasionally follow ordinary lightning, floating across land or through buildings and aircraft.

    BBC: Ball lightning baffles scientists

  • But very occasionally one will bump into a piece of "regular" matter - and that is what they are hoping to detect with DarkSide50.

    BBC: Dark Matter: Experiment to shed light on dark particles

  • Very occasionally inspectors have prevented a single passenger ship from operating - on two or three occasions in the last 20 years.

    BBC: Southsea's hovercraft

  • Very occasionally, twinges of discomfort about this have leaked into his lyrics.

    NEWYORKER: We Are Alive

  • People kept trying but only very occasionally did they succeed as above.

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  • For example, I occasionally do some basic handyman work around the house. (Very occasionally, says my wife.) But I have no feel for it.

    FORBES: Digital Rules

  • He added that there was nothing to fear from any side effects from the MMR: they include an "occasional sore arm" or "very, very occasionally a very slight rash".

    BBC: Boy with measles

  • The nature of the threat may have changed but groups of various descriptions have been predicting a breakdown of society since biblical times -- and very occasionally they've been right.

    CNN: Survivalists get ready for meltdown

  • He would enter a household, and, whether placed in the stable, quartered with the help, or, very occasionally, and only in the most Christian of dwellings, treated like a guest, he had, for those few days, a function and a recognition.

    NEWYORKER: The Limner

  • Inmates had been (very occasionally) killing guards for a long time, but the timing of the murders, and the fact that they took place in a climate already prepared to believe that even ordinary humanity was wasted on the criminal classes, meant that the entire prison was put on permanent lockdown.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • Paul Rudd is mainly the straight man in this wan, sentimental, occasionally very funny comedy.

    NEWYORKER: Role Models

  • For the last five months or so Heinz's second largest shareholder has been engaged in a very public and occasionally venomous battle to press the food company to streamline itself, invest in marketing and boost shareholder returns.

    FORBES: Peltz Get A Foot In The Door At Heinz

  • This obscene, ridiculous, and occasionally very funny movie, written by Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler, and Robert Smigel and directed by Dennis Dugan, is about a fabulous Israeli counterterrorism agent (Sandler) who has a bulging crotch and deadly hands (he karate-chops Palestinian machine guns into carrot sticks).

    NEWYORKER: You Don't Mess With the Zohan

  • Etsy shows that nearly anyone can design, create and handcraft some very cool (and occasionally pretty dumb) things.

    FORBES: USA: The United States Of Design?

  • Though he still occasionally played very well, his withdrawals were becoming more frequent.

    ECONOMIST: Jazz giants

  • Modernist ambiguity, or realist emotional ambivalence, is unknown to Tolkien the good people are very good, the bad people very bad, and though occasionally a character may be tossed between good and evil, like Gollum, it is self-interest, rather than conscience, that makes him tip back and forth.

    NEWYORKER: The Dragon��s Egg

  • The story moves at a very quick pace, which is occasionally detrimental.

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  • It is a very quiet neighborhood whose silence is occasionally broken by church festivals or house parties where everyone in the neighborhood is invited.

    FORBES: Early-Stage Opportunities For Growth

  • Occasionally there's a husband around, but very often he doesn't bother to attend.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Yet, somehow, laying out your very own town from scratch, managing its budget, and occasionally destroying the whole community with monsters and earthquakes is unquestionably appealing.

    CNN: Apparently This Matters: The new 'SimCity'

  • It is dehydration that occasionally leads to hospitalization, and raises concern for the very young, the very young, and for those with chronic illnesses.

    FORBES: Norovirus: The Bug That Is Presently Making So Many Of Us Sick

  • Occasionally I'll strike on something that's very good.

    BBC: The business of David Bowie

  • However, unless you are possessed of a decent puzzle-solving intellect (and like crossword puzzles adventure games get easier to work out the more one plays them) or have a very high tolerance for trial and error, you may find that occasionally consulting an online walkthrough will ease frustration.

    FORBES: Review: Resonance - A Smart Techno-Thriller In A Classic Format

  • The two get along well and occasionally have dinner or share a bottle of wine, but they have very different sensibilities.

    NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

  • Occasionally cruise ships will be refurbished here, but aside from ferries, there are very few large ships being built.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Unfortunately, they are occasionally susceptible at the back as a result and Inter capitalised on this fallibility with their very first attack.

    BBC: Diego Milito

  • "Although they occasionally will have an isolated reading with an unacceptable level of asbestos it's very occasional and very isolated, " Giuliani said.

    CNN: Giuliani: Recovery, cleanup could take a year

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