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> 人は一人でなど強くなれん
>
> 皆で支え合い、温め合い
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> **それでも時に凍えそうになるほど人の世は厳しい**

I have difficulty figuring out the overall meaning of this sentence. What 時に
means? sometimes? Does 凍えそうになるほど人の世は厳しい mean "friends can be strict to the
extent that makes you to tremble"?
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Understanding「それでも時に凍えそうになるほど人の世は厳しい」
> What 時に means? sometimes?

Right! 時に means "sometimes". 時に sounds more literary than [時々]{ときどき}.

> Does 凍えそうになるほど人の世は厳しい mean "friends can be strict to the extent that makes
> you to tremble"?

[人]{ひと}の[世]{よ}, literary "world of human", is almost synonymous to [世間]{せけん}
or [世]{よ}の[中]{なか}, "the world", "society".

I think your understanding of ～になるほど is correct. 「それでも時に凍えそうになるほど人の世は厳しい」
literally means "Still, the world/society is sometimes harsh/severe to the
extent that it almost freezes you". Please rewrite it to what sounds more
natural in your language.
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Yes, here「時に」means sometimes, like 時々、たまに. Per Google's definition:

> 《副詞的に》 時々。また、たまに。何かのはずみに。どうかすると。

凍えそう: the verb stem of 凍える{こごえる} (to freeze) + clitic suffix そう  
looks like (it's) about to freeze

になるほど is explained in detail [here in this
answer](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/56248/30454). It expresses a
degree to which something else is described as (by a modifier).

> でも時に凍えそうになるほど人の世は厳しい

can be roughly rendered as:

> But sometimes the world can be so cruel that it feels like freezing.

Or

> But sometimes the world can be freezingly cruel.
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