Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [num] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lewis has reneged six times to fight me , ’ claimed Bowe . |
| 2 | In recent years , the United Kingdom has attracted five times as much Japanese investment as Germany or France , which powerfully demonstrates that we have created the most attractive environment in Europe for investors . |
| 3 | And the column has come three times , each time in the late afternoon . |
| 4 | ‘ This telephone has rung four times in this house since it was installed in January , and the first call brought us news of the Glasgow Ribbon Society , the Fenian Dynamitards destroying the Tradeston gas-works in which my poor husband has substantial interests . |
| 5 | The Italian Team has won nine times in the past ten years , but this year the British Army Team ran them a very close second . |
| 6 | He has won 12 times on the European Tour and 17 times in all during his career and will always be remembered as the man who holed the putt to win the Ryder Cup at the Belfry in 1985 . |
| 7 | Martin Pipe has declared a powerful team for Monday 's Coral Welsh National , a race he has won three times in the last four years . |
| 8 | The manufacturing sector has grown 21 times in real terms since 1960 , increasing from a 17.6% share of the economy to 26.9% in 1991 . |
| 9 | In addition , the Japan-Scottish Business Club has met 4 times in SCDI 's office in Glasgow and 5 Scots have participated as guests of JETRO in Japan Study Programmes . |
| 10 | During the year since April 1991 , the Standing Committee of Convocation has met five times , receiving regular reports on the progress of CUCGA as well as dealing with Convocation affairs . |
| 11 | The Supreme Council , consisting of heads of state of member governments , has met four times to date ; it is the highest policy-making body and appoints the Secretary-General ( currently Helmi Mahmud Namar ) . |
| 12 | An offshoot , to enable voluntary bodies to prepare for the Earth Summit , has met three times and included a meeting with the Environment Minister . |
| 13 | Warlow 's claim that the Earth has flipped five times over 13,000 years implies a cosmic near miss every 2600 years . |
| 14 | He has written three times to Monika Kocanek ‘ deeply regretting the hurt I have caused ’ — and a mystery £100 has now been paid into her bank account in Bedford . |
| 15 | The funding of the Energy Efficiency Office in my Department has risen 10 times since the Government took office in 1979 . |
| 16 | In real terms , the funding for the Energy Efficiency Office has risen 10 times during the past 11 years . |
| 17 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 18 | The number of cases of thyroid cancer among children in Belarus ( Belorussia ) has risen 100 times since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 , with the highest levels in the areas where radioactive fallout was greatest . |
| 19 | He has talked about TECs and has risen three times to intervene , but has declined to give the Government an ounce of credit for having established the TECs and for having taken that most imaginative step . |
| 20 | For some unknown reason it has moved eleven times . |
| 21 | Under layers of emulsion paint were splendid oak doors , one of which John has copied three times for customers . |
| 22 | Edinburgh University , with 94 Scottish geology theses , has produced five times the average number , and it will be instructive to try to find the reasons for this apparent concentration of research effort . |
| 23 | During the last ninety years El Niño , one of the Pacific Ocean 's more enigmatic problems , has occurred nine times — in 1891 , 1925 , 1941 , 1953 , 1958 , 1965 , 1973 , 1976 and 1983 . |
| 24 | Made first team at Crystal Palace last April and has played four times for the senior side . |
| 25 | He has played 10 times for Wales . |
| 26 | Latzsch , who has played 56 times for her country , made the first goal then got Germany 's winner with a sensational solo effort , after England equalised . |
| 27 | Robinson , who has scored 246 tries for West , is a former county captain who has played 60 times for Durham . |
| 28 | She should know because she has competed three times , once dressed as a fairy who thumbed a lift from a passing coach full of male senior citizens , which really made their day . |
| 29 | Lineker has appeared 45 times for England and scored 29 goals ; Bull has played for 60 minutes and scored one , a smartly taken opportunity against Scotland in May . |
| 30 | If the one about the little drummer boy under Richmond Castle has appeared once it has appeared 1000 times , which is 1000 times more than anybody has heard the strains of the drum from under the place . |