Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] several " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
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 ‘ 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 .
3 The theoretical proposal had been public for several years .
4 These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up .
5 The gallery has been empty for several years .
6 It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised .
7 A third of its beds have been empty for several years .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He has been involved in several research projects relating to the spatial impacts of industrial organisation and change within the UK and EC .
14 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 .
15 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 ] .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now .
20 It was a form of association which had not been unremarked by several of the socially better placed .
21 If we now look at the different animals and crops that have been available over several thousand years , we will begin to see how basic systems of land exploitation worked in the landscape .
22 Remedial measures to curb soil erosion , involving the use of grass hedges , have also been successful in several southern Indian states .
23 Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years .
24 ‘ He could have been one of several . ’
25 Suppose the brochure mentions another hotel , stating that it has been open for several seasons and that it closes every year from November to March .
26 Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn .
27 As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation .
28 Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story .
29 They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California .
30 A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours .
  Next page