0 sometimes, but not regularly: --
We still get together for lunch every now and then.
1 sometimes but not very often: --
Every now and then an anæthetist has to give up his profession because he has become addicted to the inhalation of ether.
A full stop makes a pleasant interlude every now and then.
Every now and then it would be dusted off, put back and kept for a rainy day.
Every now and then one sees a notice saying that plain-clothes police patrols are in operation.
It has been stated that the patients "get put into a black hole and every now and then after a wait of months get summoned for treatment" (5).
His lamp goes out, he cannot move, all he can hear is a bat flying by every now and then on its random flight around the cave.
Every now and then a speaker makes his\her life easier by pronouncing a word more sloppily than is socially accepted (this occurs unconsciously, of course).
These scripts may become active every now and then in almost anyone.
