from time to time

Punctual or according to schedule.

Punctually or according to the schedule. / By installments, payments over a period of time. / (chess) By a player's running out of time.

At or before the time assigned. / (with for) Sufficiently early. / As time passes. / In rhythm. / (in time with) At the same rhythm as. / (music) In the correct tempo.

(idiomatic) Very soon. / (idiomatic) Very quickly.

In a single, continuous period of time. / Simultaneously at each occurrence (of some action).

(physics, usually uncountable) A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.

To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. / To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. / (obsolete) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.

(tennis) Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause. / The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.

Back then, at the time referred to the specific time period, era, or time frame in the past.