Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [num] time " in BNC.

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1 This woman has been prosecuted four times for failing tio send her daughter to school .
2 Pauline Golightly , 24 , of Vernon Gardens , Harrowgate Hill , says that since she moved into the house last October her Nissan Sunny has been vandalised four times .
3 The American , considered one of the most sympathetic of riders , has been penalised four times for careless riding since arriving here in 1979 .
4 A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times .
5 PC Bob Holt has been assaulted three times in his three years in the force .
6 For instance , the fine against a player ranked in the top 4 in the world has been increased five times from $20,000 to £100,000 .
7 To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 .
8 Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture .
9 The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times .
10 The current head of state , President Omar Bongo , succeeded to the Presidency in 1967 on the death of Gabon 's first President , Léon M'Ba , and has been re-elected three times for successive seven-year terms , most recently in November 1986 [ see p. 35047 ] .
11 This weekend 's referendum was supposed to be the Bosnian Serbs ' last word on the Vance-Owen peace plan , which has been rejected three times by their self-styled parliament .
12 A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor .
13 It 's being tested at Blackthorn railway bridge near Bicestesr , which has been hit four times in the past year .
14 A Bosnian art gallery , which has been bombed nine times since the civil war started , has been recreated in Cheltenham .
15 Smith , who has been jailed seven times in the last ten years , admitted driving with excess alcohol , while disqualified and without insurance .
16 A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack .
17 Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS .
18 Time has stopped dead , and the single experience of one coin being spun one has been repeated ninety times
19 Now the angry owner , whose home has been burgled four times this year , is offering a £500 reward for information .
20 A TERRIFIED pensioner who has been burgled eight times during the last year said she had become a prisoner in her own home .
21 Every word in it has been typed four times ( once by our Paris correspondent , once by the French telex operator , once by a typist in our office , and finally by the Linotype operator at Index Printers ) .
22 Allen , who has been booked 12 times this season , was ordered to appear before a special FA disciplinary committee after becoming the first professional player in England to top 41 points for the season .
23 Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times .
24 Spielberg , accustomed to close encounters in the extra-terrestrial sphere , has offered to be creative consultant on a drama-documentary loosely based upon the book , which has sold over 300,000 hardback copies in the UK and has been reprinted fourteen times .
25 The boy has been arrested 37 times in the last 11 months .
26 Chief Superintendent Riding of Bolton said that one youth has been arrested 30 times so far this year for taking vehicles .
27 One youth , still 17 , has been arrested 48 times in 2 years .
28 George Scott , Winston 's brother , has been arrested three times in the last three months , and Mark Braithwaite 's brother Gregory is stopped and questioned constantly .
29 ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine .
30 The corporation has been fined 25 times for soil contamination at its Florida plant .
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