What's the difference between often and ofter?

Often


Definition:

  • (adv.) Frequently; many times; not seldom.
  • (a.) Frequent; common; repeated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
  • (3) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (5) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (6) But RWE admitted it had often only been able to retain customers with expired contracts by offering them new deals with more favourable conditions.
  • (7) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (8) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
  • (9) Providers used the tests significantly more often to evaluate patients with cancer risk factors or for new patients.
  • (10) The younger patients more often experienced an acute arthritis with sacroiliitis resembling a reactive disease.
  • (11) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (12) Lactate-induced anxiety and symptom attacks without panic were seen more often in the groups with panic attacks, but a full-blown panic attack was provoked in only four subjects, all belonging to the groups with a history of panic attacks.
  • (13) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (14) Women seldom occupy higher positions in a [criminal] organisation, and are rather used for menial, but often dangerous tasks ,” it notes.
  • (15) Delineation of the presence and anatomy of an obstructed, nonfunctioning upper-pole duplex system often requires multiple imaging techniques.
  • (16) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (17) Even today, our experience of the zoo is so often interrupted by disappointment and confusion.
  • (18) Diagnosis and identification of the site of the leak is often inaccurate, even with meticulous care given to placing and removing the nasal pledgets.
  • (19) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
  • (20) Also, it is often the case that trustees or senior leadership are in said positions because they have personal relationships with the founder.

Ofter


Definition:

  • (adv.) Compar. of Oft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Particular attention is paid to the autonomy-concept of nervous activity, a concept ofter forgotten, neglected or discarded from physiological thinking, although life of any kind, in any type of living system, can only be understood if spontaneous existence and activity are accepted for living matter.
  • (2) They develop after shock, sepsis, and trauma and are ofter found in patients with peritonitis and other chronic medical illness.
  • (3) These columnar cells ofter aligned themselves to resemble normal absorptive tissue.
  • (4) Younger women had more often vaginal and older women more ofter abdominal hysterectomies.
  • (5) Because the disease is ofter sporadic, careful long-term followup of the patients with active as well as those with inactive stone disease is mandatory.
  • (6) Moon face, osteoporosis, and obesity are typically lacking; melanodermia and hypokalemic alkalosis ofter appear.
  • (7) It is apparent that the murine leukemia virus genome is ofter mutated by spontaneous processes generating a wide range of phenotypes.
  • (8) Unfortunately, in Switzerland he is ofter insufficiantly prepared to deal with these functions.
  • (9) There results show that routine autopsies are generally still useful today, but fail fairly ofter to meet the clinician's expectation.
  • (10) In case of initial a. c. hemorrhage these tears are significantly more ofter seen.
  • (11) Involvement of the liver could ofter be reliably predicted many weeks in advance of clinical diagnosis while metastases to other sites were less likely to be detected early by this test.
  • (12) Activation is also commonly present in a wide variety of other inflammatory arthritides and ofter would not be recognized by measuring only concentrations of hemolytic whole complement or C3 by immunodiffusion.
  • (13) The resulting counterphobic, hypersexual, ofter self-destructive behaviors are usually falsely interpreted as oedipal.
  • (14) Characteristically, the malignant cells (osteoblasts) contained large quantities of dilated, anastomosing rough endoplasmic reticulum, ofter forming large lakes.
  • (15) All of the patients had in common generalised (usually irregular) osteoporosis, generalised (usually irregular) metaphyseal changes, craniostenosis (13 of 18 infantile cases) or widened cranial sutures and ofter bowing of the long bones.
  • (16) For example, diffraction experiments on singly crystals can resolve 'bound' water molecules within a protein molecule--ofter at active sites, coordinated to metals or ions.
  • (17) The dysrhythmia was observed most ofter after extensive atrial reconstructive surgery in patients with transposition of the great arteries and with atrial septal defect.
  • (18) Although delayed micturition in the immediate newborn period is ofter a normal physiologic variation it may be associated with pathological states leading to a decrease in urine formation or reduction of urine flow.
  • (19) The spaces were found almost as ofter in control foetuses as in those from treated animals.
  • (20) The condition affected an older group of patients than described earlier, and ofter took the form of chronic infection with abscess formation.

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