Example sentences of "have be several [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total cost has been several million pounds more than budgeted . |
| 2 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 3 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 4 | There must have been several dozen possible suggestions for an essay from that paper — political , industrial , military ( the Korean war was still ongoing ) , in sport or arts , etc. etc . |
| 5 | After an appropriate opening , it was addressed by the pope , but so great was the crowd that one reporter could not hear the content of the speech and there appear to have been several fatal accidents in the crush . |
| 6 | There had been several small books published earlier . |
| 7 | There had been several nasty incidents recently in the town when lone women had been subjected to attacks of one kind or another , so she could n't help but look over her shoulder as she made her way along the rows of parked cars to where her small Fiesta was parked next to a sleek-looking Jaguar . |
| 8 | In regard to his relations with the Vietnamese de Lattre claimed that Bao Dai was the ablest statesman in Vietnam ; but perhaps rather spoilt things by adding that there had been several recent instances when Bao Dai ‘ had showed the proper co-operative spirit and , in some cases , even initiative ’ . |
| 9 | This time the red that flooded Folly 's face was of annoyance — until the thought occurred to her that there had been several other sets of serviceable underwear she could have chosen . |
| 10 | This was prompted by the costs of war-indeed , since the renewal of the conflict with France in 1369 there had been several major fiscal exactions , of which the three poll taxes were the last . |
| 11 | In addition , there had been several successive bad harvests , and a phylloxera epidemic which devastated the vineyards . |
| 12 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 13 | Both had been having affairs and there had been several brief separations . |
| 14 | There had been several less serious explosions in or near Addis Ababa since the EPRDF takeover ; a number of residents of the Shagolle suburb had been killed on May 28 when a shell hit a munitions plant , and five people , including two EPRDF guards , were killed by gunmen at Addis Ababa University on May 31 . |
| 15 | Before the successful insurrection of 1815 there had been several isolated incidents in which bands of Serbs attacked and murdered Turkish officials . |
| 16 | There had been several German counter attacks on the Commando positions around the village during the past three days . |
| 17 | There 've been several reported sightings of Mr Garvey 's blue Volvo estate car , but as yet non has been confirmed . |
| 18 | We 'd recommend people to stay away from them for their own safety , as there have been several violent incidents recently . ’ |
| 19 | But since the 1950s , there have been several hundred articles and books , generally written by psychologists , but also from mathematicians , engineers , advertising men and so on . |
| 20 | Up to 2,500 births a year in Britain result from artificial insemination by donor ( Teper and Symonds 1985 ) and since the birth of the first ‘ test tube ’ baby in 1978 there have been several hundred such births in Britain alone ( see Edwards 1983 ) . |
| 21 | On previous ARCs there have been several female skippers , but this year there was only one : Terri Jupp , the small but formidable boss aboard International Venturer . |
| 22 | And there have been several major episodes of extinction ( Chapter 6 ) , when the cast of characters in the sea changed almost totally . |
| 23 | There have been several major improvements to the process at Gt . |
| 24 | During the last 12 months or so there have been several major developments which will influence the international economic climate in which we all operate . |
| 25 | Indeed there have been several recent cases ( for example , ones involving alleged sexual abuse ) in which wide-ranging injunctions have been issued to protect the welfare of children who may otherwise have been exposed to unwelcome publicity . |
| 26 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is declining worldwide , especially in the developed countries of North America , Europe , and Japan , there have been several recent reports showing that there has been an increase in carcinomas of the cardia compared with carcinomas in the antrum . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , although the misuse of judicial interrogation is now only a distant history , it seems to have left its mark on public perceptions of the entire subject : and indeed not just public perceptions , for in the recent past there have been several authoritative and eloquent judicial reminders of the abuses of our former inquisitorial system and of the need to guard against their revival . |
| 28 | In addition there have been several other accidents where cars have collided with each others . |
| 29 | There have been several other occasions on which the government 's monetary targets have not been achieved . |
| 30 | Since the first British Crime Survey ( BCS ) was conducted in 1982 there have been several local surveys ( among others Merseyside , Islington , Broadwater Farm and Hammersmith and Fulham ) concerned with the incidence of crime , fear of crime , attitudes to the police and |