Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 2 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 3 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 4 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 5 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 6 | Slices may be up to several centimetres thick . |
| 7 | Sheridan will be out for several weeks following knee surgery . |
| 8 | On the other hand , the sum may be out by several thousands without the mistake being detectable except by laboriously going over the addition step by step . |
| 9 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 10 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 11 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 12 | Despite a county-wide increase unemployment was down in several North Yorkshire towns . |