Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 2 | Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times . |
| 3 | The boy has been arrested 37 times in the last 11 months . |
| 4 | A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor . |
| 5 | Now the angry owner , whose home has been burgled four times this year , is offering a £500 reward for information . |
| 6 | A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack . |
| 7 | To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 . |
| 8 | A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times . |
| 9 | Most herds are tested for TB every three years but the Rowes ' cattle have been tested 14 times in the last five years . |
| 10 | Loans to small farmers have been increased 25 times over ; research and investment has gone into new seeds and fertilizers specially designed for the needs ( and the purses ) of the small farmer ; and maize prices have gone up by 129 per cent so as to provide an incentive . |
| 11 | The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant . |
| 12 | This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Interest rates have been cut eight times since last October . |
| 15 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A post mortem revealed Mrs Bahia had been stabbed 16 times , Mrs Dhandwar 46 times and Avtar had 11 knife wounds . |
| 18 | For instance , the fine against a player ranked in the top 4 in the world has been increased five times from $20,000 to £100,000 . |
| 19 | Chief Superintendent Riding of Bolton said that one youth has been arrested 30 times so far this year for taking vehicles . |
| 20 | ( A century earlier , one unfortunate individual had been imprisoned twelve times in a year — one month at a time — under the local Act . ) |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Thirteen of the theses had been borrowed more than once , and one particular thesis had been borrowed six times . |
| 23 | PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force . |
| 24 | 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 . |