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词汇 example_english_rare-occasion
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rare occasion

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meanings of rareand occasion


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rare
adjective
uk /reər/ us /rer/
not common or frequent; ...
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occasion
noun[C]
uk /əˈkeɪ.ʒən/ us /əˈkeɪ.ʒən/
a particular time, especially when something happens or ...
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Examples of rare occasion


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Even if on a rareoccasion auditing was carried out, especially due to public pressure, the results were rarely made open to the public.
It is a rareoccasion that a self-similar tiling can also be defined by the grid or projection method.
They were pawned to pay off debts or fines incurred by older matrilineal relatives, usually mothers' brothers, but on a rareoccasion by an older woman as well.
Thirdly, on the rareoccasion of a tie on this second coding rule (length of committee tenure), the member during the first session is coded on the roster.
The latter represented a rareoccasion for ' pure ' political voting (designation of candidates to the constituent assembly) in which the issue of economic stability was not at stake.
This rareoccasion also gives me the opportunity to draw attention to neglected issues or lost causes.
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The local authority does not usually do the work itself—that would be a very rareoccasion.
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But that is a very rareoccasion in my experience.
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Previous speakers have indicated why it is a rareoccasion.
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The patter and the repartee flow and only on a rareoccasion is one left speechless on a doorstep.
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We are witnessing a rareoccasion when we are almost indulging in an all-party love-in.
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However, on the rareoccasion when cremation does not take place burial usually takes place in the hospital's own cemetery in a single grave.
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That was not unprecedented, but it was a very rareoccasion, because of the circumstances.
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It is only on the very rareoccasion when there is a real threat to a site that that does not happen.
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As he rightly said, this is a rareoccasion.
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The debate has been a model—a rareoccasion.
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It is therefore a rareoccasion on which reports of this kind are taken here.
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This debate has been a somewhat rareoccasion.
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It is the rareoccasion, such as we have seen in the north-west, that grabs the headlines.
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It is a rareoccasion, but his contribution is worth another look.
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