Security consultants say a foreigner gets kidnapped, on average,once every other month in the country, with ransom payments for their release reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The soldiers there once asked him why he went out into Apache country every day.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Slim enjoys being in the spotlight every once in awhile, but he says true happiness comes from making music day in and day out.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Every once in awhile, the rangers must crack down on reckless pilots of air boats that skim across the swamp, endangering themselves and others and tearing up delicate foliage.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

I will give you all development and all you have to do is every once in five years make sure you come and vote for me, and this thing will go on,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

U.S.officials, including the number-two American commander here, Army Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby, say such occasional spectacular attacks are,in a way, evidence of the decline of al-Qaida in Iraq, which once staged dozens of attacks every day.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

The Okefenokee,which is already nearly choked with plants, would probably fill in,dry up, and become just another cypress and pine forest were it not for range fires that come along every once in awhile and burn out decayed vegetation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29