Example sentences of "of the [noun] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he was a little bit fed up becausehe had to plough up the same strip of the field several times for the film crew . |
| 2 | I repeat the address of the clinic several times . |
| 3 | But the danger is still there as long as there are enough weapons to kill the entire population of the world many times over . |
| 4 | He grabs the top edge with his hands , thumps the face of the buttress several times with his feet and then does the same thing on the other side of the buttress with his hands before springing down to the ground . |
| 5 | At an early meeting of the YCCC with the Middlesboro City Council , the latter having changed the date and place of the meeting several times in order to avoid having to directly face the group on the issues of the campaign , a staff member of Highlander posed as a member of the press and , with video camera in hand , asked questions on the Yellow Creek pollution directly to the Mayor , and filmed the result . |
| 6 | I queried the cost and funding of the magazine several times but never got an answer . |
| 7 | He was to follow the course of the stream many times , latterly in the company of William and Dorothy Wordsworth . |
| 8 | Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus . |