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单词 every few
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every few (hours, miles, etc.)
c. every few (hours, miles, etc.): once in every small group of (hours, miles, etc.); at intervals of a small number of (hours, miles, etc.); cf. every adj. 1a(c).
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1606 T. Taylor in W. Perkins Godlie & Learned Expos. Epist. Jude Postscript 341 A peccant humor necessarily to be purged out euery fewe yeares, either by murther..or by massacre.
1747 G. Edwards Nat. Hist. Birds II. 103 In its Progression it formed a circular Flourish, turning quite round every few Paces it made.
1825 New Eng. Farmer 8 July 398/2 Prevention..is done by scraping, with a sharp knife, the eggs of the bot-bee from every part of the horse every few days.
1939 Nature 20 May 850/1 ‘Lay-byes’ and ‘drawn-ins’ should be made on every few miles of highway.
2009 J. Kellerman True Detectives xxxv. 356 Jailers doing pass-bys woke him up every few hours with flashlight glare and foot nudges.
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