Example sentences of "many time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her ; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants ; and , as Leda , was the mother of Helen of Troy , and , as Saint Anne , the mother of Mary ; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes , and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments , and tinged the eyelids and the hands . |
| 2 | It is a memorable evocation , casting a spell over the reader : ‘ She is older than the rocks among which she sits ; like the vampire , she has been dead many times , and learned the secrets of the grave ; and has been a diver in deep seas , and keeps their fallen day about her … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Many times . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Strategically sited wind-breaks reduce the impact of strong winds and provide more vulnerable plants with essential shelter for a distance many times the height of the wind-break . |
| 7 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 8 | Many times the wrong name has gone forwards to the next round because competitors confused who was white and who was red . |
| 9 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
| 10 | We scaled the 3000'ers many times individually but never completed the walk which incorporated them all , although two unsuccessful attempts were made . |
| 11 | This experience is referred to many times in the Cantos : what its author most values in theory , the weighing of syllables in the line and the leading on of the reader 's breath from one syllable to the next . |
| 12 | His essay on ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ ( The Hound and Horn , January-March 1931 ) has been anthologized many times , and rightly . |
| 13 | Even so , it was not sure how many times he had tried it . |
| 14 | BRITISH STEEL yesterday snapped up the country 's biggest steel stockholding company in a £330m deal which gives it control of 20 per cent of the UK market and turns two Lancashire businessmen into millionaires many times over . |
| 15 | Mr Pozsgay has been written off many times . |
| 16 | The likelihood , indeed , is that they would have been repeated and rehearsed many times ( 'now that 's a very good point you 're making there — I wonder if you could conceivably contrive to put it a little more precisely' ) . |
| 17 | Margaret Thatcher herself said it so many times in reply to ‘ wet ’ critics that it became known , not very affectionately , as Tina . |
| 18 | The French allotment was many times oversubscribed by last Monday and the price on the Parisian grey market , where shares are unoffically traded before issue , has been as high as Fr95 , compared to an issue price of Fr72 . |
| 19 | A serpentine commode , the central section of which pulled out as a silver table , and a Russian mirror of the 1790s supported on twisting ormolu snakes could have been sold many times over . |
| 20 | An old gentleman enters , in a traditional blue and black costume , with knee-length white boots many times repainted . |
| 21 | Variations on the fears expressed below reappear many times in the field notes . |
| 22 | Many times the incompetent were described as being smart but lacking even an ounce of common sense . |
| 23 | As the tank-landing craft heads out into the English Channel I play a slow Highland air , Loch Monar , a tune I have played many times at Achnacarry , and possibly recognised by many of those Commandos who had passed through the Training Centre . |
| 24 | It is an area I have visited many times , especially the coastal areas which are superb for walking . |
| 25 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade . |
| 28 | Since Siah told me this story about a supreme storyteller , 1 have told the story myself many times . |
| 29 | By contrast , says Clarke , the poor and working class within those communities have often been more accepting of those ‘ who would be outcast by the ruling culture — many times to spite the white man , but mainly because the conditions of our lives have made us empathic ’ . |
| 30 | When the sun moved round she too had moved to the doorstep , her sleeves rolled up and concentrating half on the book and half on the remembered scene until her mother had arrived , walking up the street where they had both walked so many times before . |