be often in

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But another factor might also help explain some of the recent shakiness: BDCs are more loaded with debt than they used to be, often in ways that are hard to discern.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

We passed close to the Osteria del Pino—where the meet used to be often in old hunting days.

From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

They are nervous and full of muscles, that they may, as well as the back, be often in action and sustain the greatest fatigue of all the body. 

From The Existence of God by Morley, Henry

And some of them, orphaned in their agony, are crying, though it be often in contemptuous tones that almost sound as if they meant the opposite, 'Oh, that I knew where I might find Him!'

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah by Maclaren, Alexander

In some such situation, particularly if the English had occasion to be often in the Indian village, they may have repeatedly heard the invitation, "step into the house."

From Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 by Heizer, Robert F.