Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ‘ additional note ’ to Guy Mannering , Sir Walter Scott [ q.v. ] states that Billy was ‘ pressed or enlisted in the army seven times , and deserted as often ; besides three times running away from the Naval Service ’ . |
| 2 | Not so in the case of Jim ; a young collie cross , tortured and shot in the head 12 times with an airgun . |
| 3 | Police said a lone gunman hiding in undergrowth fired through the security fencing and hit Mr Gallagher in the back several times as he got out of a builder 's van . |
| 4 | They have applied to take part in the race several times in previous years but without success . |
| 5 | In 1863 , the race was won by Emblem and in 1864 by Emblematic — full sisters and both ridden by George Stevens who took part in the race 15 times and won a record five times . |
| 6 | Leeds had the ball in the net three times ; Man City had about three shots on target . |
| 7 | The following report has been published in the East Anglian Times , a newspaper that more or less covers the area in which the company 's products are sold . |
| 8 | After resting and lazing for nearly an hour , after the children had slid down enough dunes , chased enough birds , fallen in the water enough times , we returned in much the same way as we started out , except this time Maha leapt into the boat and would not move . |
| 9 | They have been in the squad several times before but have yet to get on the pitch , even for a couple of minutes . |
| 10 | He 'd already stabbed me in the heart several times before that with other ladies , but at least this time , there was a lady that I liked immensely . |
| 11 | Having had cancer in the family two times , I was actually calm . |
| 12 | Practise putting your tent up in the garden several times . |
| 13 | He then punched Dr Henry in the face six times . |
| 14 | Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week . |
| 15 | According to a report by the Central American Institute of Research and Industrial Technology , Salvadoreans living in the cotton-producing areas suffered from levels of DDT in the body 11 times higher than the corresponding average found in Florida , USA . |
| 16 | Throughout the evening of 26 May this year , the two dipped their fingers in the oil ten times , each time reducing it to a spot or two . |
| 17 | Not one to shirk the product testing , she eats in the restaurants five times a week and , on some occasions , has a chef cook the entire menu for her . |
| 18 | Violent rioting has broken out in the camps many times in recent weeks . |
| 19 | I use contractions in the newsletter some times which is deliberately honest . |
| 20 | Again , it would take a very stubborn inductivist to put his hand in a fire many times before concluding that fire burns . |
| 21 | Almost immediately he became the anchorman of the Hampshire batting and he was to score over 1,000 runs in a season twenty-seven times , including twice when he passed the 3,000 mark , and nine times when he exceeded 2,000 . |
| 22 | I worked out in a gym three times a week but when my fitness was tested for the BBC 's The Fitness Programme ( which , embarrassingly , I was presenting ) , it was discovered that although my biceps were passable , my heart and lungs were unaffected by my muscle conditioning . |
| 23 | I was given , in my first job , responsibility for the administration of the education service in an area one-and-a-half times the size of Scotland . |
| 24 | This land of little more than 2m people and 24m sheep , enclosed between China and Russia in an area three times the size of France , had already appealed for emergency food aid to get it through the winter when the worst snows for 50 years hit three provinces in the south-west . |