Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the centuries Cornwall 's tin output has totalled about 10 times the annual quantity the world produces now . |
| 2 | He is in the 100 kilogramme class and has lifted nearly four times his own weight . |
| 3 | The growth of the international bond market is evident from Table 5.1 , which shows that issuance has increased over ten times in nominal terms since 1975 . |
| 4 | Gooch has complained too many times now that the players needed to compete more keenly . |
| 5 | For instance , the computation of the monthly statistics has changed over thirty times in the past decade . |
| 6 | So then , with no better grace and without even a passing thought for Josie 's safety , Lucy pinned back her own hair and began to carry out the makeup job that she 'd undergone so many times before . |
| 7 | She told me , as she 'd done so many times , that happiness could never be created out of the misery of other people , that Héloise was already jealous of her and unhappy because of her influence with the children . ’ |
| 8 | It must have done so thirty times before dusk . |
| 9 | He is also one of a select band of Palace players who have also appeared in the County Cricket Championship , having done so 14 times for Hampshire between 1957 and 1962 . |
| 10 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
| 11 | I find difficulty believing that they will be able to do that , simply because the detailed assessment that has been done to date , as we 've heard so many times is is incomplete . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not little , ’ Ellie protested lightly , as she had protested very many times before . |
| 13 | I know we 've seen about six times |
| 14 | Claire sat down , as they had done so many times together , and the years fell away as if they had never been apart and she had never married . |
| 15 | So I went by coach to the old town , as I had done so many times before , and walked to the forge . |
| 16 | She paused , imagining the scene in her mind 's eye as she had done so many times before , trying to picture her mother as a young girl , still in the fresh-faced bloom of youth . |
| 17 | This they had done together many times , though never in such a pattern setting as now . |
| 18 | The garden project is over , of course , but , as you 've said so many times , there are plenty of other designers … |
| 19 | It had that quality of making you feel like an old friend who had visited there many times before . |
| 20 | This was a vehicle with all mod cons at the rear of the bus , which I had followed many times and checked on its progress flying over the route ; oddly enough , on my last night in Mespot I was to sleep in the Imperial Airways rest fort at Rutbah Wells , I had refuelled there many times and had wondered with awe at the vast ugly route-flying Imperial aircraft — Handley Page HP42s — and even more so at the passengers who took an even greater interest in our tiny single-engined Wapiti aircraft , and furthermore asked endless questions about our aircraft and of our life in Baghdad . |
| 21 | He had performed here many times in the past and the passive role was hard to take . |
| 22 | Sophia had stayed here several times before , which was one reason why it had been chosen as suitable for the St Basil 's party . |
| 23 | The decision came against a background of growing public anxiety over the capital 's air pollution levels , which had reached nearly four times the recommended limits as set by the World Health Organization . |
| 24 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 25 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 26 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 27 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 28 | Jack did n't know much about its history , just that it was a folly built by someone rich , but he had walked there many times with his camera , photographing the temple from all angles . |
| 29 | I 've found that many times in sales . |
| 30 | The silk trade itself had hit very hard times in the mid-1790s ; a contemporary ballad reflects its catastrophic decline : |