Example sentences of "been [adv] [num] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they won their independence from the Ottoman empire 170 years ago , there have been only three times when Greeks could justifiably feel the world was smiling on them . |
| 2 | He 's been down three times in his career , but always got up to win . |
| 3 | He has returned to the Players ' Championship and the New Orleans tournament after a six-week lay-off with eight rounds in which he has not been over par and has been under five times . |
| 4 | Lachy had been back one time afterwards that she knew of , a year later , and he had called , but she 'd told him she would n't be able to see him , and put the phone down on him . |
| 5 | I 've been back 4 times and they know me . |
| 6 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 7 | ‘ He has been out three times today and hopefully we can turn him out in a paddock tomorrow . ’ |
| 8 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 9 | I had been there nine times previously , but I supposed it was the same as your time as a baby — you could not remember a thing about it . |
| 10 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 11 | I remember him telling one man that had been late three times in fifteen years that it was getting to be a habit : ‘ You 'd better look for your previous employment . ’ |