Example sentences of "been [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1914 only ten British officers had ever been six times decorated for gallantry and one of these , Braham , who in 1951 was awarded the AFC for hazardous developmental work on all-weather fighter aircraft , uniquely achieved a seventh decoration . |
| 2 | That should have been six times nought point two over |
| 3 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 4 | Since then it has been three times enlarged , in width , length and depth . |
| 5 | At the same time Brotherton ( 1983 ) using documentary evidence has demonstrated that the rate of afforestation has been three times greater outside the National Parks . |
| 6 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
| 7 | The servants say the doctor 's been three times but been forced to leave again without seeing him . |
| 8 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 9 | Typically , 20 or 30s was required for a full evaluation using all the equations , though processing could have been ten times as quick with an 80287 fitted . |
| 10 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 11 | She was the daughter of a respected and well-to-do burgess of Lynne ( as King 's Lynn was then called ) who had been five times Mayor , and Alderman of the High Guild of the Trinity . |
| 12 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 13 | The London Emergency Bed Service reports that this winter things have been four times as hard as last year , and my experience confirms this . |
| 14 | and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing |