Each time the pattern recurs all the chimeras of the past are reactivated.

This chronic pattern may recur for many years.

This pattern recurred in the 2008-2009 season, finishing 12th whilst having been 6th halfway through.

A pattern of pronouncing foreign words according to the rules of English orthography recurs throughout the work.

This pattern of civil strife and natural disaster recurs throughout the Horn of Africa.

As early as 1795 the following pattern recurred.

For one thing it's periodic - the same pattern recurs every two hours or so.

These patterns recur in different contexts and can sometimes be modelled mathematically.

Old tigers, or those wounded and rendered incapable of catching their natural prey, have turned into man-eaters; this pattern has recurred frequently across India.

On the second night, however, a familiar pattern recurred for the tropically-challenged Danes as they wilted in the heat to drop all five matches.