Example sentences of "several time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I painted this bit here several times over ; that hill too . |
| 2 | It seems that David had at first great difficulty in making his way with the public , and was several times unsuccessful in his efforts after fame . |
| 3 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 4 | I must have said that several times already because Ma fixed me with a glittering stare and exclaimed , ‘ If you say that word once more , Andrew , just once more , I 'll send you to the Science Museum again … with Annabel . ’ |
| 5 | This is a slow launch which picks up speed and fades several times , and it is usually caused by a shortage of fuel or mechanical trouble on the winch or car . |
| 6 | After doing this several times in a two-seater during training , the student may find both that applying full opposite rudder will stop the spin and that the glider does not in fact re-stall again even if the stick is kept back . |
| 7 | Most people only have shingles once in a lifetime but it is possible to have it several times . |
| 8 | If you fight on after sustaining a head injury and then receive a further blow to the head , the damage caused by the initial impact will be multiplied several times over ! |
| 9 | ‘ Night ’ itself occurs several times in his early books of poetry , as it was bound to do , and its references are of an intimidating sort : ‘ the night never ending ’ ( in ‘ Letter ’ ) , and ‘ the clinic of your thighs against the night ’ ( in Let Us Compare Mythologies ; the latter intimating that other experience of the night which such high thinkers as Bertrand Russell found laden with sexual feelings ) . |
| 10 | She returned to the formal garden and paced its perimeter several times , counting her steps to see if the number would be the same on each circuit ; but it was n't . |
| 11 | What you can not turn to with such pride is BR 's printed timetable , which changed format several times during the eighties and ended as a poor thing , well below continental standards . |
| 12 | The vet was very kind but had to explain that Lizzie had severe heart failure , repeating himself several times before Marjorie and Bill could comprehend the situation ; he was asking them to make a decision — a decision to end Lizzie 's life . |
| 13 | It 's a very personal way of thinking and writing which we have encountered several times already , and which now , twenty-seven years after that letter to his brother , appears most insistently with Raskolnikov as he Paused for a moment to take breath , to collect himself , and to enter as a man ’ and tell the police who it was killed the old money-lender and her sister . |
| 14 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 15 | Waugh 's ‘ senile slobber ’ against Eliot — he as good as called Eliot ‘ a drunken helot ’ — has been remarked on several times , notably in his son Evelyn 's autobiography , A Little Learning . |
| 16 | This personal stamp is partly created by the unique range of Burrows ’ influences — British folk dance from his training at the Royal Ballet School , ballet itself , and at the opposite extreme the minimal , unburnished style of Rosemary Butcher , with whom he has performed several times . |
| 17 | He was walking along a quiet street when gunmen shot him several times in the head . |
| 18 | But the official version of events has already changed several times . |
| 19 | ‘ I had holidayed several times in France and was toying with the idea of buying a house there , but with no definite plan in mind . |
| 20 | There was an almost equally dramatic sequel to the race when Carroll House , who is known to be a highly strung individual , lashed out several times as he was returning and almost caught well-wishers patting his quarters . |
| 21 | But the Frenchman fell victim during the first off-road stage turning his car over several times . |
| 22 | Police hope to identify men seen several times in the Campbell Road area in the six days between 16 September , when the IRA unit apparently left the safe house , and the bombing . |
| 23 | Several times in the past , there have been attempts to murder her . |
| 24 | It is part of this recipe knowledge to remain emotionally detached and consider it as just another incident or another death , and to treat the dead body , for example , ‘ as a piece of meat ’ : a phrase used several times by policemen and women . |
| 25 | He was a seriouslooking Welshman whom I had met several times back in England and around the orchard . |
| 26 | He jumped into the air several times then shook my hand , ‘ Merci , merci , Cornemuse , ; venez manger avec mois ce soir . ’ |
| 27 | I stop staring at her as she repeats several times , ‘ You are Scottish ? |
| 28 | Several times we spotted seals basking in the calm waters . |
| 29 | There were several times in 1984 when the government seemed fairly near to defeat , notably in November 1984 when the pit deputies ’ union , NACODS , seemed likely to strike also . |
| 30 | Raven also had him round several times to meals at his house . |