from time to time

prepositional phrase3

1. •
   Occasionally; sometimes; once in a while.

   • I'll find out your man, / And he shall signify from time to time / Every good hap to you that chances here. — 1591
2. •
   In whatever status exists at various times.

   • This is another way of saying that the terms of the individual contracts are in part to be found in the agreed collective agreements as they exist from time to time […] — 2015
3. •
   (no longer used) Continuously from one time to another; at all times, constantly.

   • So was she trayned vp from time to time, / In all chast vertue, and true bounti-hed / Till to her dew perfection she was ripened. — 1590