more often than not

often | American Dictionary

often
adverb
us/ˈɔ·fən, ˈɔf·tən/ us /ˈɑf·ən, ˈɑf·tən/
a lot or many times; frequently:
She was often late for class.
I don’t see my parents as often as I’d like to.

Examples of often

often
In the enriched representational context of events, situations, actions, and plans the operative representational unit is often a circuit of nodes rather than a node.
The act of oviposition was very quick, often lasting less than half a second.
But far too often there is risk of serious direct harm when a rigorous assessment of benefits and harms is undertaken.
A number of respondents thought they might be safer than ordinary bulbs, as they needed to be changed less often.
And often they are interested in history due to contemporary philosophical issues.
The observed secondary instabilities often seem to be purely two-dimensional.
They constitute representations of the past, and are often explicable through hermeneutics.
If the nasal vowel was represented as monosegmental, one would expect it to be followed most often by the palatal approximant.
This information is, however, often requested in the next step of market introduction, the pricing and reimbursement process.
First, private parties often lack the individual incentive to initiate litigation before national courts.
These new parties often had origins in the civil society which was allowed to exist during the authoritarian era.
Along these paths, as often happens with observed series, inflation is autocorrelated and deviations from target cannot be accounted for as simple stochastic innovations.
These works highlight the multifaceted and often problematic relationship of the past to the present.
The study found most musicians to be wholly or partly self-employed, and to work in a variety of often interdependent roles throughout their careers.
Often, the legal system (and/or its functionaries) serves as a barrier to any proper resolution of the questions surrounding the narrative and plot structure.
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