Phrases related to time - Vol.

5 Compiled by Om Prakash Yadav (sw=somewhere, sb = somebody, sth = something)

five evenings a week as often as I can from the beginning of next month for the first time

a hundred times ever since from start to finish at the beginning of a programme by the end of this year ..for as long as you like. ..until next Saturday Sometime later By this time next year Fail ones driving test for the third time Not tolerate sbs bad behaviour any more At a time of economic uncertainty Your time is up
a lot of times

After a certain period of time

All too often

Spend much of ones working life doing sth

Use sth/sb rarely, if ever, for a particular purpose

If something happens on alternate days, it happens every second day

Private cars are banned from the city on alternate days.

If sth happens on alternate days, nights, etc. it happens on one day, etc. but not on the next John has to work on alternate Sundays. The ferry service will initially run on alternate days, increasing eventually to daily sailings.
If something happens on alternate days, weeks etc, it happens on one day etc and not the next, and continues in this pattern every other alternate Mondays/weekends etc The service runs on alternate days.

Do sth

more often than sb else at one time or another, for the time being

REGISTER
In everyday English, instead of alternate days/Fridays/weeks etc, people usually use the phrase every other day/Friday/week etc: We meet on alternate Saturdays. We meet every other Saturday.

the alternation of day and night

INTERMINABLY
interminable /- -/ adjective continuing for too long and therefore boring or annoying an interminable delay his interminable stories