Example sentences of "times [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , it came or it or it would be one of the depressions that the town has suffered from many times during the last fifty or sixty years . |
| 2 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |
| 3 | She had been mean with money all her life , using her daughter and granddaughter as servants , and even herself at times during the last seven or so years as unhired help , except for the time that Rosie was here . |
| 4 | Road plea : Drivers are being asked to avoid roadworks on Birkenhead Road , Meols , Wirral , at peak times for the next four weeks due to road works . |
| 5 | He three-putted four times in the first six holes and on the inward run twice fluffed chips to take a third 6 at the thirteenth . |
| 6 | He must have looked at both of them a dozen times in the first two minutes . |
| 7 | The word scandalous is repeated four times in the first three pages . |
| 8 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 9 | During 1950 , as much as two thousand million dollars were contributed , and that amount was increased eight times in the next ten years . |
| 10 | Three times in the next ten days the beacons passed news from point to point — from Rubha Nan Gall across the Sound of Mull to Castle Nan Con , back to Aros , across to Ardtornish and back again to Duart — that the threat that had first been hinted in Luch 's arrival had taken solid shape . |
| 11 | After an opening 70 , he used his putter only 50 times in the next 36 holes when he shot 65–64 . |
| 12 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 13 | I hope you still support firemen through their troubled times in the next few months . |
| 14 | They chose their own governor every year , though as they re-elected Governor Bradford thirty times in the next thirty-five years their policy suffered no lack of continuity . |
| 15 | CAMBRIDGE struck three times in the last 17 minutes to earn a point . |
| 16 | Beaten 16 times in the last 17 years over the 4 mile Putney to Mortlake course and virtually written off by the bookies , the Light Blues insist they can turn the tide . |
| 17 | Most herds are tested for TB every three years but the Rowes ' cattle have been tested 14 times in the last five years . |
| 18 | The boy has been arrested 37 times in the last 11 months . |
| 19 | The government is not averse to pump priming book provision and has done this three times in the last six years , for the introduction of the GCSE examination , for acquisitions in university libraries and , most recently , for books for the National Curriculum . |
| 20 | I I 've probably seen them about four or five times in the last six months and they do tend to go a bit route one when Walsh is playing but today their link up play has been excellent . |
| 21 | If his car is good , which it was three times in the last two seasons at Benetton , he will win . |
| 22 | The world production of sugar has increased by nearly thirty times in the last hundred years . |
| 23 | Martin Pipe has declared a powerful team for Monday 's Coral Welsh National , a race he has won three times in the last four years . |
| 24 | Yorick had attempted suicide three times in the last four years ; and the last attempt had nearly succeeded . |
| 25 | I have been a victim of crime four times in the last 12 months . |
| 26 | The scope of this immunity has been changed no less than six times in the last 20 years . |
| 27 | ‘ About two hundred and thirty seven times in the last half hour , ’ she assured him . |
| 28 | ‘ As we have said several times in the last few days , ’ Hoare wrote to Neville Chamberlain on 31 August , ‘ we had some great good luck in the absence of Winston and L.G.' Having destroyed one coalition , Baldwin had no intention of entering another . |
| 29 | I have been moved on two or three thousand times in the last few years |
| 30 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |