Example sentences of "a few times " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was difficult to see him alone , but I did manage a few times . |
| 2 | The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority . |
| 3 | He asked them a few times . |
| 4 | Towards the end of my career in retailing , when we were gigging as a band , I was late quite a few times . |
| 5 | The Alex Harvey Band came into the shop quite a few times that summer , Chris Glenn , the bass player , bought his gold lurex socks from us . |
| 6 | It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available . |
| 7 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 8 | I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it . |
| 9 | So after it happened a few times our teacher said ‘ We wo n't have cooking like this any more . ’ |
| 10 | Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour . |
| 12 | They would definitely , at least , break even , and it did come to bear a few times . |
| 13 | ‘ We did go out together a few times , yes , Chief Inspector . |
| 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 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 16 | He would stand in front of the bathroom mirror in his boxer shorts and expand his chest a few times , breathing deeply . |
| 17 | Gloria had taken Dot to the cinema a few times . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To prevent the ‘ feet ’ of wheelbarrows wearing away prematurely , reinforce them with a coathanger wire coiled tightly round a few times . |
| 20 | In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice ! |
| 21 | Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ? |
| 22 | Moz 's dinner could then be brought into the yard without dumping it over the fence ; and the horse was then led up to this food , caressed a few times , and released while he was still distracted by eating the first few mouthfuls . |
| 23 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 24 | ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known . |
| 25 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 26 | Doone clicked his pen a few times , then at the bottom wrote Lewis Everard . |
| 27 | Several characters repeat their main point a few times , but I see this as mantra-like rather than repetitive . |
| 28 | Nick had tried to get his US Tour card that year and we 'd played a few times in America . |
| 29 | For example in the Meteorologica ( 339b27 ) he asserts : ‘ We must say that the same opinions have arisen among men in cycles , not once , twice , nor a few times , but infinitely often . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We did say we 'd limit him to thirty mares as he 's been so busy competing , but somehow we managed to allow our arms to be twisted a few times . |