Example sentences of "three times in the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has been seized with his fits three times in the space of seven days , ’ Coleridge wrote to Joseph Cottle on 15 March ; ‘ and just as I was in bed , last night , I was called up again — and from 12 o clock at night to five this morning he remained in one continued state of agoniz 'd Delirium . ’ |
| 2 | Earlier , Private Lee Clegg ( 22 ) told the court he had fired three times in the vicinity of the car driver 's head . |
| 3 | The Scottish Panel on Inter-Library Lending met three times in the course of the year , with several new members joining at the latest meeting as part of an arrangement to rotate membership to bring in as wide a representation of Scottish libraries as possible . |
| 4 | In one such ritual the defendant touched his head three times in the presence of his child or mother . |
| 5 | Three times in the House of Lords spokesmen contradicted themselves when asked whether that phrase should be applied . |
| 6 | Thus if a particularly irate husband pronounced the words three times in the heat of the moment the divorce was permanent and could not be reversed . |