Sentence examples for had only sometimes from inspiring English sources

Eight percent had only sometimes or rarely/never been able to take the necessary time off from work etc., and for 5% the absence from work had caused them problems at their workplace.

It has only sometimes, and quite by accident, been fulfilled.

The village defense committees have only sometimes succeeded at their task.

And the street protesters, who have only sometimes aligned with the formal opposition, say they will accept nothing less than his departure.

Since the peak years of Republican success in the 1980s, the party's candidates have only sometimes been vote-snagging virtuosos.

It has been like that many nights this fall at the Garden, when the aesthetic void of empty seats has only sometimes been obscured by cheering fans leaping from their perches.

These things may not rise to the level of cheating which is assumed to be the case with PED use, but they suggest that in baseball cheaters have only sometimes, and generally somewhat capriciously, been punished.

We conducted a sensitivity analysis using a more restrictive definition of nonadherence (having only sometimes, rarely, or never taken PCP medications exactly as prescribed during the past month).

But both the politics and the substance of such a deal would probably be worse for conservatives than the kind of bargain that might have been available otherwise — if more Republicans had only recognized that sometimes a well-chosen concession can be the better part of valor.

A typical Jew in Jesus' time had only one name, sometimes supplemented with the father's name or the individual's hometown.

It sometimes had only a handful of films, and it didn't break into reliable profits until the late 1920s.