Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 2 | We are grateful to several people who have produced poems and recipes , particularly Vivette Montgomery , Jeanette Golding and Josephine Steel . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been outstanding for several weeks now — and he 's got real pace , which you ca n't find these days , never mind buy it . |
| 4 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 5 | One aspect is clear — South Africa 's coffers are empty after several years of isolation . |
| 6 | CL colour and brightness are dependent on several factors , including beam voltage , current , surface current density ( a function of beam focus ) , nature of sample surface , time for which sample has previously been irradiated , degree of heating ( thermal quenching or emission of thermoluminescence ) and the geochemical composition of the sample itself . |
| 7 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 8 | The gallery has been empty for several years . |
| 9 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 10 | A third of its beds have been empty for several years . |
| 11 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 12 | They are subject to several common law rules evolved by the courts as well as to certain recent pieces of legislation . |
| 13 | In the purchase of material goods , issues of quantity , quality , price and delivery are crucial in several respects . |
| 14 | Assume as before that national income has been constant for several time periods at £1,000 , and that autonomous investment is initially equal to £500 . |
| 15 | But the problems raised by global warming are unprecedented in several respects , so that the established tools of economic analysis can not deal with them properly . |
| 16 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 17 | Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDS ) are helpful against several different types of pain , and if one form of treatment does not suit you , your doctor may be able to prescribe a more suitable one . |
| 18 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 19 | The bureau has been involved in several local residents ' campaigns for improved amenities and has also produced a report on racism in North Tyneside , aimed at persuading the local authority to look at its range of services within the borough . |
| 20 | Archie Turnbull took early retirement in 1987 , suggesting as his successor Martin Spencer , then running Manchester University Press , which had been involved in several successful collaborative ventures with EUP . |
| 21 | He has been involved in several research projects relating to the spatial impacts of industrial organisation and change within the UK and EC . |
| 22 | Political pressure on Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa increased in February , with fresh allegations that senior government figures had been involved in several cases of corruption . |
| 23 | Ripa De Meana had been involved in several conflicts with the UK government over such as issues as drinking water and clean beach standards and various transport projects [ see pp. 38544 ; R132 ] . |
| 24 | Levack had been involved in several big contracts , including the Johnstone by-pass , a joint venture on the M74 with Edmund Nuttall and reconstruction of Rothesay Pier , all of which are now completed . |
| 25 | Carew 's bleak diagnosis can hardly have been uninfluenced by several decades of mounting concern at the impermanence of non-agricultural employment compared with the stability of farmers fully occupied tending their land , and men continuously employed as servants in husbandry engaged for a year at a time . |
| 26 | Most poles are flexible with several short sections shock-corded together for quick assembly . |
| 27 | Tidal ranges are important in several respects . |
| 28 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 29 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 30 | One particular time when we are concerned with several computer architectures is when transferring programs from an old computer to a new one . |