Sentence: With these, she discovered, Reddy maintained a sparse but cordial intimacy many of them he saw as often as two or three times a year, but this was not true of all there was Colonel Rogers, whose comfortable ranch house was distant a hard day's ride, and whose powerful patronage gave Reddy a position in that region he could not otherwise have had.
Combination: two or three times a year (root: time, modifier: year)
Property: occasional
Property type: emergent