(adv.) In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(2) While they may always be encumbered by censorship in a way that HBO is not, the success of darker storylines, antiheroes and the occasional snow zombie will not be lost in an entertainment industry desperate to maintain its share of the audience.
(3) Occasional vomits occur postoperatively in over half of patients but we are sceptical of the value of graded postoperative feeding regimens.
(4) The epithelium of Brunner's gland stained intensely with Ricinus communis agglutinin-I (RCA-I), succinylated-WGA (S-WGA) and wheat-germ agglutinin (WGA), moderately with Bandeirea simplicifolia agglutinin-I (BS-I), Concanavalia ensiformis agglutinin (Con A) peanut agglutinin (PNA) and Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I) and occasionally with Dolichos biflorus agglutinin (DBA), Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) and soybean agglutinin (SBA).
(5) Our interest in the role of association brain structures during this behavior is not occasional.
(6) The region of the tentorium and straight sinus can occasionally give rise to a vermiform appearance (the "AVM artifact").
(7) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(8) He was often detained and occasionally beaten when he returned to Minsk for demonstrations, but “if he thought it was professional duty to uncover something, he did that no matter what threats were made,” Kalinkina said.
(9) Tissue sections, taken from foliate and circumvallate papillae, generally revealed taste buds in which all cells were immunoreactive; however, occasionally some taste buds were found to contain highly reactive individual cells adjacent to non-reactive cells.
(10) Her success has not been universally welcomed - anonymous colleagues are occasionally quoted in the media portraying her as "ambitious" and "bossy".
(11) Strains showing occasional antagonism at a particular proportion of concentrations of the test combination, were found to only be indifferent when the mean index of the fractional inhibition concentration of all checkerboard combinations was calculated.
(12) Occasionally, these aggregates coagulate and contract into a dense gel in the absence of MgATP or CaATP.
(13) The virus neutralizing (VN) titers were occasionally lower where the polyvalent vaccines were used when compared to those from chickens given the monovalent vaccines.
(14) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
(15) Stimulation of this mechanism produced an average 58.9% reduction of the heart rate (calculated from 55 responsive points having more than 40% reduction) associated mostly with hypotension, or no change or occasionally a slight increase of the arterial blood pressure.
(16) In the progeny of the surviving males, neither translocations nor independent fragments are found; indirect evidence indicated the occasional presence of inversions.
(17) Occasionally symptomatic kinking of the internal carotid artery will require correction.
(18) At thoracic levels occasional neurons of the intermediolateral column cell group were NGF receptor positive.
(19) The PAF receptor antagonist SRI 63-072 in a dose of 0.6 mg, reversed by 70% the reduction of coronary flow within 2-4 min after its addition to the perfusate; ED50 was 0.4 mg. Bradycardia and arrhythmia were reduced; however, the normal electrical activity was only occasionally restored.
(20) Staphylococci were the predominant inhabitants of normal skin, whereas micrococci were found only occasionally in this environment.
Oft
Definition:
(a.) Frequent; often; repeated.
(adv.) Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the OFT, banks receive up to £3.5bn a year in unauthorised overdraft fees - nearly £10m a day.
(2) The CK-M expression in the developing outflow tract (OFT) and conduction system is described in detail.
(3) The objectives of this study were to document the official oral fluid therapy (OFT) policies of all the ministries of health in South Africa and of the four provincial authorities, to determine what methods of OFT are used in hospitals providing paediatric care, to determine the OFT methods recommended by hospital staff for use at home, to establish the level of support for the idea of one national policy for OFT and to determine what senior academic paediatricians think about these issues.
(4) Further, the oft-reported psychiatric troubles preceding MS clinical onset suggest that at least in some MS patients there are specific gaps in personality structure dating back to early phases of their development.
(5) All customer letters from DG Solicitors were compliant with the OFT debt recovery rules, and made clear that the firm was a trading name of HSBC and that its people were HSBC employees.
(6) In a report – which described the payday lending and debt management industry as opaque and poorly regulated – the influential committee said the government should outline a timetable within six months for deciding whether control of consumer credit will be transferred from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), a new regulator replacing the Financial Services Authority.
(7) Following a review and consultation with Ofcom, the OFT found that despite ITV's market position declining, it remains almost the only provider of very large commercial audiences.
(8) There is no doubt that it is getting tougher.” Sheng, whose book, Northern Girls, follows the lives of China’s oft-exploited female migrant workers, said she believed an author’s calling was to write about the problems of society: the “injustice, the inequality and the darkness”.
(9) There is the oft-quoted structural shift from print to web for both consumers and advertisers.
(10) That is, if their oft-stated commitment to move away from outdated north-south approaches is genuine.
(11) The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) warned last year that there was “insufficient visibility and comparability of charges” to ensure that competition in the market was fully effective.
(12) "However, in order to ensure that any potential conclusions from the OFT's processes can be taken into account in the trust's own decision, we will await the OFT's findings and will publish our final conclusions on Project Canvas later this spring."
(13) The former London mayor Ken Livingstone tried to sell an afternoon distribution slot on the tube network after the OFT's 2005 ruling, prompting interest from Richard Desmond's Express Newspapers and News International.
(14) And in a direct contradiction of the oft-stated view of the Israeli leadership, he asserted: "you do have a true partner" in Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad.
(15) As part of the transition from OFT to FCA, from Autumn 2013 existing OFT licence holders will need to apply for interim permission so they can continue to operate.
(16) The OFT welcomed what it called "very clear confirmation" that it could assess current account terms and conditions on fairness.
(17) The oft-quoted 5-cm rule for melanoma excision is not valid.
(18) Yesterday, the supreme court delivered a shock decision when it ruled that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) could not challenge overdraft charges because it does not have the power to decide whether they are unfair.
(19) Furniture Village said it was aware of the OFT investigations but added that it would be inappropriate for it to comment or confirm its involvement until its findings were published.
(20) Then, in the summer of 2007, the payouts stopped after the OFT announced a test case against eight current account providers in a bid to establish the legality of the charges once and for all.