Usage Note
Fois counts occurrences — une fois, deux fois, la première fois — and is never used for clock time, which is heure, or duration, which is temps. It opens the storybook formula il était une fois, the French equivalent of 'once upon a time'.
Examples
"Je l'ai vu trois fois."
Natural Translation
I saw him three times.
Literal Translation
I it-have seen three times

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