Example sentences of "several [adj] [noun pl] at the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt I had won several different things at the same time , including my war against the Portuguese Federation . |
| 2 | Most of the contents of the Universal Declaration are not merely nonsense but pernicious nonsense ; and Article 25 is in this respect typical , not least in being both nonsensical and pernicious in several different ways at the same time . |
| 3 | For a start , the actors all play many different roles , shedding old and assuming new parts with bewildering speed and ease : sometimes indeed they play several different roles at the same time , representing different things in different relationships . |
| 4 | It is true to say that the ‘ reforms ’ have been taking place along several different tracks at the same time , and it would be simplistic to suppose that the single element called ‘ case management ’ could or should be expected to ‘ make the difference ’ in isolation from other aspects of the reforms . |
| 5 | This produces that variety of note-successions so typical of the total-chromatic usage of serialism ( Example 140 ) : This exercise has been written in such a way as to reveal the considerable difficulty which inevitably occurs when using several serial forms at the same time . |