Example sentences of "few time " in BNC.

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1 It was difficult to see him alone , but I did manage a few times .
2 The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper .
3 ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea .
4 The resulting explosion had the dead and stunned fish floating on the surface of the water , a procedure I had practised a few times in the Highlands , lobbing a grenade into a salmon pool , a dangerous procedure if caught by someone in authority .
5 He asked them a few times .
6 Towards the end of my career in retailing , when we were gigging as a band , I was late quite a few times .
7 The Alex Harvey Band came into the shop quite a few times that summer , Chris Glenn , the bass player , bought his gold lurex socks from us .
8 It had been splendidly undemanding ; because of his family , she did not see him more than a few times a month , always meetings snatched at short notice and with absolutely no expectation from him that she would be available .
9 Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books .
10 One day Tony gets up to watch and witnesses one of the few times when the sun travels across a blue , cloudless sky .
11 I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it .
12 So after it happened a few times our teacher said ‘ We wo n't have cooking like this any more . ’
13 By how few times he has lost his way ?
14 Obviously we believe we can make up the time on roads we have been over quite a few times . ’
15 ‘ He has slammed into my back on running plays a few times , and the only way I can describe what it feels like is to imagine standing on the street and getting hit by a car going 50 miles an hour .
16 They would definitely , at least , break even , and it did come to bear a few times .
17 ‘ We did go out together a few times , yes , Chief Inspector .
18 He was a very handy and determined batsman , good enough to score almost 2,000 Test runs at nearly 23 , even opening the batting a few times , and over 13,000 during his career , including 1,000 a season three times .
19 You had to pee a few times a day to survive .
20 He would stand in front of the bathroom mirror in his boxer shorts and expand his chest a few times , breathing deeply .
21 Gloria had taken Dot to the cinema a few times .
22 Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys .
23 The big dog had snapped it from his fingers eagerly enough , but after rolling it around in her mouth a few times she spat it to the floor and pawed at it , growling and sniffing her distaste .
24 To prevent the ‘ feet ’ of wheelbarrows wearing away prematurely , reinforce them with a coathanger wire coiled tightly round a few times .
25 In fact , you can just get on and off them a few times and they never seem to register the same thing twice !
26 Could these be used to replace some other fattier meals a few times a week ?
27 ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised .
28 Moz 's dinner could then be brought into the yard without dumping it over the fence ; and the horse was then led up to this food , caressed a few times , and released while he was still distracted by eating the first few mouthfuls .
29 What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up .
30 ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known .
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