Example sentences of "many times [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the papers are now torn and others have been heavily creased because they have been re-read and re-folded so many times over the past 41 years . |
| 2 | After sketching her many times over the past two days in all sorts of positions , and studying the sketches for an hour earlier this morning , Faye was now ready to paint . |
| 3 | The difficulty with all this is cost as , despite the Lands Tribunal decision , there is nothing to prevent the Capital Taxes Office from raising a new demand based on fresh grounds , as it has done many times during the past 11 years . |
| 4 | Many times during the past evening he had returned to her , in ludicrous , colourful , brightly painted effigy , all his embarrassments clustered and clanging round him , all his mannerisms protruding , projected , enhanced : the sharp red nose , the usually broken bifocal spectacles , the striped woolly lunch-spattered waistcoats , the bald shining brown freckled Professor Branestawm brow , the pockets full of string , the green socks and brown sandals , the little pedantries , the favourite quotations , the antiquarian commentary , the hydrometer , the tufts of hair in his ears , the batty , potty , dotty , hurt , persistent grin . |
| 5 | Schools , temples and churches have been hit too many times in the past few weeks to be the victims of mistakes . |
| 6 | I have seen this problem many times in the past couple of years when the summers have been very hot . |
| 7 | He looked better , but he 'd been in and out of his wits so many times in the past weeks there was no knowing . |
| 8 | I 've heard that play so many times in the past few days , I knew the lines was n't right . |
| 9 | They should be specific about events and topics : instead of asking , " How often have you been off work ? " , ask , " How many times in the past two months have you been off work ? " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Jade Pike has come close to dying many times in the past year . |