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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hardly ever did" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize that something rarely occurred in the past.
Example: "Hardly ever did she miss a day of work, no matter how she felt."
Alternatives: "rarely did" or "seldom did".
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I see disability all around now, whereas before I think I hardly ever did.
Smith hardly ever did that, managing 28 homers and batting.262 in a 19-year career.
This introductory volume of a universal history reveals Khaldūn's ideas about history something chroniclers hardly ever did.
That might not sound like much, except when it is remembered that administrations in the recent past hardly ever did it this way.
Context explains why she gets a weekly massage and a pedicure at least once a month, things she hardly ever did before.
Elsewhere he found unrepentant Nazis such as Richard Strauss, whose grievance against Hitler ("Hardly ever did he go to hear any of my operas") was perhaps the most comically egomaniacal ever registered.
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In practice, this is hardly ever done.
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Bennett hardly ever does interviews.
In my experience, it hardly ever does.
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