Example sentences of "times in the [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | He still considered himself something of a failed journalist ( NME amongst others , had turned him down five times in the early years ) and he often expressed a desire to use his new found influence to move into spasmodic fits of journalese . |
2 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
3 | As a result of these developments in microelectronics , the annual use of computing power increased by about 2000 times in the twenty years between 1960 and 1980 . |
4 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
5 | There were many times in the past years when he had wondered why on earth he had involved himself with the Hochhauser Season , times when he was worried , exhausted , furious , and prepared to consign the whole company to hell . |