Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] many [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him .
2 There had been so many secrets .
3 ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles .
4 During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace .
5 He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq .
6 There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President .
7 It was n't worth asking of what kind ; there had been so many beginnings .
8 But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit .
9 Lord Weir added that there had been too many incidents of vandalism to the danger of people on the railways .
10 There had been too many occasions on which she had tried to please , hoped for hugs or even smiles , times when she had practised the piano and cleaned her room assiduously , only to be met by jibes , or slaps , or worse still , beatings .
11 Since then , looking back on it , there had been too many children 's holidays and not nearly as many lunches with girls in the ‘ Dolce Vita ’ as a man deserved .
12 There had been too many films taken , shown on TV , of Franklin D. Hauser departing by Lear jet in the States for yet another destination .
13 He had been there many times before .
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