Example sentences of "been [adj] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 2 | No Party has been victorious three times running increasing its majority each time . |
| 3 | I 've been married three times . |
| 4 | My mother disapproved of him because she was his contemporary , and she thought , ‘ This man 's been married three times , why would n't he love a beautiful nineteen year-old girl ? ’ |
| 5 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 6 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 7 | To him , Zambia had been virgin six times over , and each deflowering had been more intense than the last . |