Example sentences of "[noun] a few times " in BNC.
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| 1 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 2 | It did go through my mind a few times , but at the time it does n't seem that important . |
| 3 | it 's been uppermost in my mind a few times but the I daresay I would n't go to prison the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ If there 's bandits along any of these sections , ’ he said , ‘ we 'll skip 'em and you can tack on the extra mileage by walking round Kano a few times . ’ |
| 5 | Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores . |
| 6 | The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste . |
| 7 | Peter Shillinglaw , secretary of New Brighton Lifeboat which had to go into action a few times , said : ‘ I can not help but think the organisers of this race have been very , very lucky over the years . ’ |
| 8 | He said : ‘ I was on the verge of the England squad with Norwich and played for the Under-21 side a few times . |
| 9 | The electric pumps deliver fuel to the carburettors ready for starting and , on a cold day , the primers should be used although for some reason these are wired closed on Juliet Uniform and one has to pump the throttles a few times before firing up . |
| 10 | Well having seen Blackburn Rovers away from home a few times this season I I 've got ta say at half time I thought they 'd they 'd be comfortably in control . |
| 11 | Doone clicked his pen a few times , then at the bottom wrote Lewis Everard . |
| 12 | It 's of course always privilege to play over there and I was over there with a national team a few times , it 's a big occasion for the players , for the managers and for the big tournaments too . |
| 13 | Oxford United have come off the rails a few times this season . |
| 14 | He was a very handy and determined batsman , good enough to score almost 2,000 Test runs at nearly 23 , even opening the batting a few times , and over 13,000 during his career , including 1,000 a season three times . |
| 15 | Several characters repeat their main point a few times , but I see this as mantra-like rather than repetitive . |
| 16 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 17 | I only saw Stephen a few times before I went back to prison . |
| 18 | When filling small cracks , I 've found that I get a smooth finish , which requires little or no sanding , of I roll over the crack with a paint roller a few times , while the filler is still damp . , . |
| 19 | They had been to the Fish a few times before and Mary had little difficulty in sousing the coarse splutterings of the pair of spoilt whelps who were nonetheless , she thought , by no means bad or wicked young men . |
| 20 | Yeah , I went out with Shelley , with Warren a few times read read yeah ? |
| 21 | I 've never met Sir Brian or Sir Oliver and have only met Sir Bernard a few times , but I instinctively feel that all six would lay down their lives without hesitation for a damsel in distress . |
| 22 | A black hole with a mass a few times that of the sun would have a temperature of only one ten millionth of a degree above absolute zero . |
| 23 | He would stand in front of the bathroom mirror in his boxer shorts and expand his chest a few times , breathing deeply . |
| 24 | They thump your chest a few times and call the old crash unit and then they grope around for your pulse , but it 's a very amateurish affair really . ’ |
| 25 | Gloria had taken Dot to the cinema a few times . |
| 26 | No , I mean , last time I went out would be erm well I 've been out in the afternoon a few times , with my boyfriend , but , the last time I went out in the evening |
| 27 | Sonny shook his head a few times , trying to clear his fuddled senses . |
| 28 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 29 | He simply shook his head a few times and went on grinning . |
| 30 | If I 've been working a lot I deep cleanse with a mask a few times a week . |