The variable 'frequency of occurrence' was rated according to six categories: never, almost never, at least once a year, at least once every six months, at least once a month, and at least once a week.
A 5-point frequency scale provided ratings about how often any task was performed in a single day (never; at least once a day; at least once a week; at least once a month; or seldom).
Both meanings are never present at once.
Not infrequently, people assume that I am either a children's author or the author of monster erotica (never both at once, though, at least so far … although when this grant runs out, maybe that's a plan).
Using this as license, Mr. Banville has grouped together an array of historical figures who were in Dublin near the time of the performance but who were never there at once.
Not infrequently, people assume that I am either a children's author or the author of monster erotica (never both at once, though, at least so far... although when this grant runs out, maybe that's a plan)." — KAREN RUSSELL, in an interview on The New Yorker's Page-Turner blog after she was named a 2013 MacArthur fellow.
Its three characters — Adolph (Tom Burke), a sickly and sensitive artist; Tekla (Anna Chancellor), his much older wife; and Gustav (Owen Teale), a mysterious, insinuating stranger with compromised ulterior motives — meet in pairs, never all at once, as power ebbs and flows among them.
Fortuitously, I've amassed a number of friends with similarly solitary leanings - we loosely hang out and go on holiday together (never all at once, of course: that would constitute a group) and have an instinctive respect for the colossal personal space required by independent souls.
