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Actually, Hector was only sometimes great.

That adventurism was only sometimes rewarded with close-ups of bone-jangling checks.

Here, her band was on an elevated platform far behind her, and she was only sometimes surrounded by dancers.

But those who believed that premarital sex was only sometimes or never wrong became more supportive of AIDS spending — by 15 points, in fact.

In both wars, our enemy was only sometimes a conventional army; as often, if not more so, it was an elusive guerrilla force that was frequently indistinguishable from the civilian population.

Energised by the optimism of the era, Richard gave Oz an eclectic, imaginative breadth, with a pioneering internationalism and an opposition to prejudice, and subjects ranging from American Yippies to student activists, from mystical dreamers to new age ecologists, which meant the magazine was only sometimes as superficial as the sloganeering banner of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll suggested.

The old ones were well toasted, but the new ones are only sometimes crisp.

Of course, the past is only sometimes prologue in the fickle financial markets.

(It does not appear on the menu, and is only sometimes available).

It is only sometimes outright funny, but Submarine always maintains a wry, melancholic wit.

While this is true, readers should know that miles are only sometimes -- not always -- awarded.