Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 32 | They 'd been shot 21 times . |
| 33 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 34 | A British Cox 's apple may have been sprayed 12 times and dipped in fungicide before it reaches your fruit bowl . |
| 35 | The British tranche was none the less fully subscribed , but shares on sale in Europe were oversubscribed and those offered in New York could have been sold four times over . |
| 36 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 37 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 38 | I have more reason than most to do that , having been shot 10 times by the IRA . |
| 39 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 40 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |
| 41 | ‘ It will probably turn out to have been discovered twenty times already . |
| 42 | The new carriageway was , however , short-lived , and a masonry building , probably a bath-house , was constructed across it at this point ; the surviving carriageway appears to have been resurfaced seven times . |
| 43 | This would suggest that by the date of the walls , the interior was already well built-up ; indeed excavations near the south-west gate she wed the intervallum road to have been re-metalled six times indicating prolonged usage . |
| 44 | A post mortem revealed Mrs Bahia had been stabbed 16 times , Mrs Dhandwar 46 times and Avtar had 11 knife wounds . |
| 45 | He had been stabbed fourteen times . |
| 46 | They had been stabbed 70 times . |
| 47 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 48 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 49 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |
| 50 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 51 | Among its main points were : * the total emissions from ICI plants of pollutants to land , air and water fell from 8.6 million tonnes in 1990 to 8.3 million tons in 1991 ( down 3.7 per cent ) ; * the company had been prosecuted 36 times in 1990 and 26 times in 1991 for environmental offences , with the number of prosecutions falling in every country of operation with the exception of Britain ; * production of hazardous waste fell from 678 tonnes in 1990 to 476 tonnes in 1991 ( down 29.8 per cent ) ; * the amounts of " non-hazardous " waste dumped in landfills and in the North Sea increased , from 3,509 tons to 3,565 tons and from 150 to 170 tons respectively ; * overall energy consumption fell by 6 per cent in 1991 ( partly due to the sale of 20 subsidiaries and falling product sales ) ; * the company 's expenditure on environment-related projects reached £300 million in 1991 . |
| 52 | The paper claimed Johnson had been tested three times in six days in mid-January , and that at least one of the tests was positive for abnormally high testosterone levels . |
| 53 | Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words . |
| 54 | It had been reprinted nine times when Walton wrote his Life of Herbert in 1675 . |
| 55 | ( A century earlier , one unfortunate individual had been imprisoned twelve times in a year — one month at a time — under the local Act . ) |
| 56 | The word ‘ grammar ’ , for example , had been inserted seven times without any indication of exactly what it implied . |
| 57 | Working in the very competitive insurance industry , principally at Lloyd 's , he had been approached four times by four different headhunting firms , only one of whose names he remembered ( one of the smaller UK-based consultancies ) . |
| 58 | Thirteen of the theses had been borrowed more than once , and one particular thesis had been borrowed six times . |
| 59 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 60 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |