Example sentences of "many times [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a huge Hollywood party given in his honour in 1983 , his screen sparring partner Burt Lancaster announced , ‘ I 've worked with him many times over the span of years , and I think I know him pretty well . |
| 2 | Insomnia is a common complaint in which the sufferer has poor sleep that is often broken many times during the course of the night . |
| 3 | Avoid switching the machine on and off many times during the day . |
| 4 | His name was to be mentioned many times during the weekend and we missed him . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've spoken to her and her family many , many times on the phone . ’ |
| 6 | She had lived many times on the edge of danger and she knew better than to sink back to sleep . |
| 7 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 8 | ‘ For I have gone many times to the Cavern of Cruachan . |
| 9 | The procedure of creating a new product has been conducted many , many times throughout the engineering industry in many different ways . |
| 10 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 11 | Eventually , after the subject had been raised many times by the Inspector , the CEGB gave in and agreed to produce the figures ‘ without prejudice , to its main argument . |
| 12 | Variations on the fears expressed below reappear many times in the field notes . |
| 13 | And Seal Sands Lock , the place where she had come to be healed so many times in the past , offered her no comfort now . |
| 14 | ‘ Opinion polls may or may not turn out to be right at a later stage ’ ; ‘ Local authorities exceeded projected expenditure by quite a margin ’ ; ‘ When this campaign started some weeks ago ’ ; ‘ I concede the point , for I have stated it many times in the past . ’ |
| 15 | There was no other way out of the shed and quick moving had saved Nails many times in the past . |
| 16 | William Connors had briefed him many times in the past , yet Delaney even now , was unsure of just where Connors fitted into the scheme of things . |
| 17 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 18 | Louise , who had been her comfort , buffer and rescuer so many times in the past ; Louise , who had in so many ways been more of a mother to her than Nora ; Louise , who even now had lost none of her vigour and strength of personality . |
| 19 | He watched one of last year 's American purchases Celestial Key storm home at his local Pontefract track yesterday and his trips have paid off many times in the past . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just that you 've been close so many times in the past and the deal has fallen through . |
| 21 | In this article Peter Campbell , who has used mental health services many times in the past , explains how the reforms could affect people like him . |
| 22 | Luxembourg has changed hands many times in the past . |
| 23 | It was a song she 'd heard many times in the past , one that had stayed in the popular charts for months . |
| 24 | How many times in the past had he done that to her ? |
| 25 | Environmental archaeology provides evidence to demonstrate that the human environment has changed many times in the past , each change heralding periods of technological , economic and social change as human societies struggled to find new ways to gain a living from the world around them . |
| 26 | My wife and I have travelled P & O from Dover to Oostende and Dover to Zeebrugge many times in the past and we have always been issued with separate tickets . |
| 27 | I cross the park , as I crossed it so many times in the past , and regain the modest Edwardian streets beyond Maze Hill . |
| 28 | I wonder how many times in the past , when you 've been staying here , you 've gone to the trouble of escorting Kirsty to school ? ’ |
| 29 | He had performed here many times in the past and the passive role was hard to take . |
| 30 | A post mortem showed 80year-old Mr Goult , known as ‘ Old Jack ’ , had been stabbed many times in the chest at his home in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , Liverpool . |