"I can see he is angry and upset, but he does not show it very often, and never to the kids".
But there is a difference between not very often and never, and all golfers relish those moments when they hit shots that are every bit as good as those of the PGA Tour stars.
On a four-point Likert-scale, response options ranged from very often to never.
"How often do you do a particular activity?" with response options from "very often" to "never" [ 4].
On a seven point Likert-type scale, patients select a reply for each question between two extremes (i.e. very often and never).
Answering options were: "never," "once," "a couple of times," "often," and "very often," dichotomized as "never" vs. "often" (at least once).
Tenant opinion is not something that is very often gathered, and never on a great scale.
Here's a sentence you don't hear very often: there's never been a better time to be a British MC.
I don't, however, need to see it very often, whereas I never see Mark Morris's "Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" (1988) as much as I'd like.
Inspiration doesn't come around very often, there's never a right time to write, and book deals come after you're done, more often than not.
