Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was our Player of the Year three times ( another club record ! ) in 1978 , 1985 and 1987 and fully earned the undying admiration and gratitude of Palace fans . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I repeat the address of the clinic several times . |
| 4 | Notts County will disagree with that after picking the ball out of the net 5 times . |
| 5 | But the danger is still there as long as there are enough weapons to kill the entire population of the world many times over . |
| 6 | It forced me out of the attic three times a day to discover my new surroundings and meet the local people . |
| 7 | She plunged into the sea , grateful for the buoyancy of the salt water , then decided to push herself , swam the width of the cove six times and stumbled out onto the sand , shivering . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I queried the cost and funding of the magazine several times but never got an answer . |
| 11 | He was to follow the course of the stream many times , latterly in the company of William and Dorothy Wordsworth . |
| 12 | Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus . |