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English
Adverb
time and again (not comparable)
- Often; repeatedly.
1959 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The British Railways Clas "9" 2-10-0s: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 556:For successful and efficient operation, mechanical stokers must be fed with suitable coal. This has been proved time and again in all countries where stoker-fired engines are used.
2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:Mario Gotze was inventive, Lewandowski a menace, and Shinji Kagawa a constant source of energy as, time and again, the hosts played through a porous Arsenal midfield.
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often; repeatedly
- Arabic: مِرَارًا وَتِكْرَارًا (mirāran wa-tikrāran)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 反反復復/反反复复 (zh) (fǎnfǎnfùfù), 一次又一次 (yīcì yòu yīcì)
- Danish: gang på gang, igen og igen
- Dutch: keer op keer
- Estonian: ikka ja jälle, korduvalt
- Finnish: kerta toisensa jälkeen, toistuvasti
- French: à maintes reprises (fr), maintes fois (fr), à de nombreuses reprises
- German: immer wieder (de)
- Hindi: बार बार (bār bār)
- Persian: چندین و چندبار (čandin o čand-bâr)
- Portuguese: repetidas vezes, uma vez atrás da outra, uma e outra vez
- Russian: то и де́ло (ru) (to i délo), неоднокра́тно (ru) (neodnokrátno)
- Scottish Gaelic: uair is uair
- Spanish: una y otra vez, repetidas veces, una vez tras otra
- Swedish: gång på gång (sv), gång efter annan
- Turkish: defalarca (tr), tekrar tekrar (tr)
- Urdu: بار بار (bār-bār), بارہا (bārhā), گھڑی گھڑی (ghaṛī-ghaṛī)
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