Example sentences of "[noun] have [vb pp] [det] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The length and content of the course has changed many times since the last war , and several high-ranking officers are updated each year . |
| 2 | As they approached , Corbett realised the fortifications of Earlston were a square tower of pleasing proportions within a stockade or peel which Corbett had seen many times on his journeys into Scotland . |
| 3 | The gangs had clashed many times . |
| 4 | The Dallas daily says that General Motors and General Electric have met several times in recent months to examine ways to increase their influence over the likes of IBM Corp , Compaq Computer Corp , Dell Computer Corp and Apple Computer Inc , quoting executives involved in the talks and industry analysts and the pact could create a consortium with a requirement as many as 100,000 desktop personal computers annually . |
| 5 | The lower part of the iris of the eye reflects a brilliant green colour which the author has tried many times to capture on film , without success . |
| 6 | Since then , senior representatives of General Motors , Ford and Chrysler have met several times administration officials led by the president 's science adviser , John Gibbons , and Deputy Secretary of Commerce-designate John Rollwagen . |
| 7 | The next stage in the economic shock therapy will be freeing energy prices , which Mr Yeltsin has postponed several times for fear of a popular outcry . |
| 8 | Reform , the young protesters stressed , was good but should be extended into the political sphere , as their predecessors had demanded many times before . |
| 9 | In females , one of the X chromosomes is switched off early in development , but not before the fertilised egg has divided several times . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman must recognise that the Labour proposal would cause a double upheaval and a return to a system which the Opposition Front Bench has criticised many times . |
| 11 | Environmental archaeology provides evidence to demonstrate that the human environment has changed many times in the past , each change heralding periods of technological , economic and social change as human societies struggled to find new ways to gain a living from the world around them . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State has said several times today how proud he is of British Rail 's safety record — a pride which we all share — but that is surely no reason not to look again at the real doubts that have arisen in the past year about manning , the number of hours worked and the quality of some of the new systems of signalling that are being installed . |
| 13 | As the Home Secretary has said several times , there is nothing illegal about that . |
| 14 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to 30 or so , leaving Pick with its development core and about five salespeople . |
| 15 | The move , a cost-cutting measure Pick has employed several times in the past , halves the company to thirtysomething , leaving Pick with its development core and about five sales people . |
| 16 | Since Mr Clinton has said many times that he will not send ground troops to Bosnia until there is peace , the protection he has in mind will presumably consist of air power , no more . |
| 17 | ‘ It would help , ’ the Doctor had announced several times , ‘ if the corridors were straight . ’ |
| 18 | It was as his grandfather had said many times . |
| 19 | Goering had noted many times before that the fatter and more powerful he got , the more attractive women found him . |
| 20 | Christine Mills had called several times to say she wanted to see the chief inspector urgently because she had ‘ something very important ’ to tell her about the death of her father . |
| 21 | The doorbell had sounded several times while she was changing and , as she descended the stairs , a hum of voices was audible from the drawing-room . |
| 22 | As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has said many times , we should work as hard as we can in the heart of Europe to lead our partners away from the cause of Euro-dirigism and Euro-protectionism , which if allowed to develop under the influence of Madame Cresson and such people would render the entire Community less competitive in global markets and blight the prospects of the developing countries to the south and east of the existing Community . |
| 23 | Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia has said many times : ‘ Come and see for yourselves . |
| 24 | All three ran back to the trough prepared to swim for it as the boys had done several times before . |
| 25 | ( Incidentally , the official club year and Annual General Meeting date have shifted several times over the years ) . |
| 26 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 27 | My mother has said many times in our adult life that although she loved our father and should have stood by him , as far as Richard was concerned , ‘ she could not help herself ’ . |
| 28 | Cattell had absconded several times from a previous home , mixing with older people , some of whom were allegedly involved in crime , drug abuse and prostitution . |
| 29 | She and Charity had spoken several times on the telephone , but both being so busy , no meeting could be arranged until today . |
| 30 | It was true , Uncle Max had said many times that if she decided to take up general practice he 'd be only too happy to have her join him , but that was n't quite the same thing as actually being offered a job . |