Example sentences of "[conj] [num] times [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opo developed a special friendship with a 12-year-old girl , who would enter the water five or six times a day to swim with or stand and talk to her . |
| 2 | She needed continual reassurance , and although she had been told by God himself that all her sins were forgiven and that she would not need to go to purgatory , she confessed and had herself absolved four , five or six times a day . |
| 3 | His university duties consisted chiefly of marking examinations five or six times a year , avalanches of which arrived from all over the country ; he found it increasingly difficult to judge them , unable to make up his mind about marks while driven by conscience to become ever more scrupulous . |
| 4 | It seems she saw her father five or six times a year and her grandfather less often than that , though the old man used to send her substantial cash presents at Christmas and on her birthday . ’ |
| 5 | The first task was to finish putting together the ‘ Darlington Drinker ’ , a local magazine which goes out five or six times a year to pubs around the area . |
| 6 | Choristers sing Evensong generally five or six times a week , as well as services twice or three times on Sundays . |
| 7 | ‘ This weekend was exceptional , but we are regularly there five or six times a week , ’ said Mr Warrior . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a man with a Doberman comes around two or three times every night . |
| 9 | It was better not to let him know that Chris woke regularly two or three times every night . |
| 10 | These sessions should not be too long , just five minutes or so , two or three times every day . |
| 11 | Now some of the girls And they 're released you know , some of the girls were arrested what two or three times a night . |
| 12 | Consider this scenario which I see consistently two or three times a year . |
| 13 | During the 1950s , most of the Federations managed to publish magazines two or three times a year , composed of articles by both professional and voluntary members . |
| 14 | Twice or three times a year he would be carried out to the automobile or the dog-cart , and be driven round the home farm . |
| 15 | ‘ Two or three times a year . |
| 16 | The latter is a very formal process occurring usually two or three times a year . |
| 17 | If there is no-one nearby it is well worth time and money to travel to a good director , perhaps with visits twice or three times a year . |
| 18 | Mr Kundra added : ‘ He stays at the flat from time to time — perhaps two or three times a year . ’ |
| 19 | Two or three times a year she exchanged the cushioned existence she had constructed for herself for something different but equally restful , like a prolonged stay at a good hotel in the country or a cruise on the QE2 . |
| 20 | Its institutions would be confined to a Council of Ministers , meeting only two or three times a year . |
| 21 | T R E company Molecule theatre which came originally from the Mermaid in They came here two or three times a year for seven or eight years and we use to pack 'em out . |
| 22 | And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal . |
| 23 | The panel , which will meet two or three times a year is : Bob Cotton , PR Director , Gardner Merchant ; Neville Dyckhoff , deputy director of catering ( support ) Metropolitan Police ; Michael Finkelman , senior vice president , Hilton International ; Mike Ward , catering policy manager , Whitbread Pub Partnerships ; Hugh Cade , partner , Touche Ross , GBS Division ; and John O'Connor , head of department , Oxford Brookes University . |
| 24 | I feel sorry for the Tories , they will only be able to go for a cruise around the world once instead of two or three times a year . |
| 25 | Some doctors used the instrument two or three times a day , six per cent did not carry one in their bag and half had used them fewer than 12 times in the past six months . |
| 26 | Then I ‘ doctored ’ some ready-made beeswax ointment with essences of lavender and peppermint which I advised Elizabeth to apply liberally , two or three times a day . |
| 27 | How to use : 6–8 drops in a small teacupful of warm water two or three times a day . |
| 28 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 29 | Probably the remedy to try first , two or three times a day especially if there is a thick , milky-white , bland discharge that does not irritate or only very little . |
| 30 | One , twice or three times a day . |