Example sentences of "how many time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How many times do I have to tell you , Hawkins , my name 's Doctor Streeter , not Miss Streeter ; now come up here and wipe that filth off . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't know how many times I 'd done the Harwich-to-London run , but the journey seemed different that day — like a well-known view captured in a freshly painted picture . |
| 3 | Even so , it was not sure how many times he had tried it . |
| 4 | The administration costs would be endless and it would be difficult to prove exactly how many times a local pub rock group has played any one song . |
| 5 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 6 | How many times have I heard you ? |
| 7 | How many times had she watched him do that ? |
| 8 | And how many times had she thought how easy it would be to poison him ? |
| 9 | ‘ How many times do I have to tell you I do n't know this McCloy ? ’ |
| 10 | Asking both men and women how many times they took the driving test before getting through , the researchers found that men had a significantly higher success rate , with 57 per cent passing at the first attempt . |
| 11 | How many times have you heard people say that the greatest gift in the world is good health ? |
| 12 | How many times have you bought something that has let you down ( and not complained ) or worn a garment for just one season simply because it was the latest gimmick ? |
| 13 | I said , ‘ How many times ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ How many times worse than 200 unsightly windmills is the radioactive product of a nuclear power or the CO 2 emissions of one coal-fired station ? ‘ ask Energy Committee in its report of the hearings . |
| 15 | I have lost count how many times we have done this . |
| 16 | How many times has it happened ? |
| 17 | I wonder how many times I was taken in by his Yankee sincerity , his B-movie honesty . |
| 18 | How many times had my heart sunk when I asked if we could go somewhere or try something new in our poems and he had answered with the excusing phrase ‘ I guess not ’ ? |
| 19 | How many times have I told you to dismount before letting go of your arrows ? |
| 20 | The Russians changed their minds about intervening ‘ I do n't know how many times , ’ wrote Khrushchev . |
| 21 | ‘ How many times do I have to tell you not to dawdle ? |
| 22 | How many times has Mummy told you not to wander off like that ? ’ |
| 23 | The poignancy of having distressed relatives say , ‘ How many times can you say goodbye ? ’ can not be overestimated , and allows us a glimpse of some of the problems of anticipated grief . |
| 24 | As for North , ‘ he would either go to jail or be decorated ’ , Secord used to say to Hakim ; and McFarlane told him — as he sat jet-lagged and exhausted in his office the night after a gruelling Iranian session in Frankfurt — that ‘ if the world only knew how many times you have kept a semblance of integrity and gumption to US policy , they would make you Secretary of State . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ How many times is it you 've run off now ? ’ |
| 26 | We might turn away from our own particular church — we might go through a period of not knowing what we believe in — we might change from being a Catholic to a Buddhist or from a Jehovah 's Witness to an Anglican ; but , no matter how many times we reject religion , we know it will never reject us . |
| 27 | No matter how many times you are in or out of your home , the unit can cope . |
| 28 | How many times have you reached the top of a ladder , only to find that you 've forgotten to bring the power drill up with you ? |
| 29 | How many times do we hear this being said ? |
| 30 | He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen . |