Example sentences of "that [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , although not a criticism of our method — indeed , if anything , quite the contrary — it should be noted that for several of our chosen authors it was possible to arrive at more than one ‘ diagnosis ’ that fell within the general category of psychosis . |
| 2 | The reason is that for several years to be pro-European meant to be pro-Maastricht . |
| 3 | They were expressing a point of view widespread among their contemporaries , at least in Western Europe , a feeling that for several generations warfare had been becoming steadily milder and its influence on the ordinary man more limited . |
| 4 | Beginning in 1970 , experiments in Oxford on sheep and monkeys have demonstrated that for several weeks before birth the foetus in the uterus makes periodic breathing movements , rather as if the developing foetus were practising what it would have to do immediately after birth , and that shortage of oxygen to the foetus arrested these breathing movements . |
| 5 | Is it not surprising that after several years of unremitting devolutionist propaganda from the Scottish Constitutional Convention , support for devolution is almost at an all-time low , according to the opinion polls ? |
| 6 | Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk , who chaired the meeting , announced at a news conference that after several hours of what were reported to be stormy discussions , 20 documents had been signed , notably including an agreement defining the status of the strategic forces and stipulating that their commander was subordinate to the Council of Heads of State and to the C.-in-C. of the joint armed forces of the CIS . |
| 7 | Ministers believe that with several months leeway , they can overcome public fears and backbench resentments sufficiently to reduce the potential Tory rebellion from 50-70 votes — which could spell defeat — to a manageable 20-30 . |
| 8 | Ministers believe that with several months leeway , they can overcome public fears and backbench resentments sufficiently to reduce the potential Tory rebellion from 50-70 votes — which in tandem with Labour could spell defeat — to a manageable 20-30 . |
| 9 | Most of us have been warned about the health risks of high blood pressure ( hypertension ) but few people are aware that in several European countries the opposite condition of low blood pressure ( hypotension ) is regarded as a medical problem . |
| 10 | AOPA was actively involved throughout the campaign to save West Malling and has found that in several instances residents in the neighbourhoods of airfields have been opposed to flying , but when they were made aware of the horrors of what the possible alternatives would be , they then realised what a valuable green and friendly asset a local airfield could be . |
| 11 | Heron 's obsessive concern with pictorial space determined his Observation that in several of Minton 's paintings objects were ‘ strung out across a dull plane ’ . |
| 12 | The fact that in several departments no nurse was fulfilling the role of a nurse practitioner on either or both of the census days indicated the fluctuating nature of activity undertaken by nurse practitioners generally . |
| 13 | It is likely that in several instances such differences will be specific not generic . |
| 14 | Close on line monitoring of the effects of interferon on viral replication revealed that in several patients HBeAg and HBV-DNA serum values decreased continuously and were almost negative when treatment was stopped ( week 24 ) at which point a relapse occurred . |
| 15 | When the patterns of magnetic anomalies across mid-oceanic ridges were mapped out it was noticed that in several cases the parallel bands of similarly magnetized crust were broken by numerous offsets or displacements which seemed to be aligned approximately at right angles to the axis of the ridge . |
| 16 | Try that on several cars in the Escort-class , and you will sometimes watch the back of the car overtake the front . |
| 17 | ‘ Lord Justice Bingham concluded that perhaps that could have been done more fully , but a careful reading of the report discloses that on several occasions that is precisely what Price Waterhouse did . ’ |
| 18 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 19 | So much so that on several occasions when obliged to contact him on police matters , Markby had found him positively obstructive . |
| 20 | The master took the opportunity to complain further to the Board that on several occasions he had drawn the medical officer 's attention to an inmate , William Sabey , who was at times a danger to others and had attempted to stab the labour master . |
| 21 | In the first case of its kind since the introduction of that offence by the USSR Supreme Soviet on May 14 , 1990 , she pleaded guilty to charges that on several occasions she had insulted Gorbachev , for example by calling him a " fascist criminal " and comparing him to Hitler . |
| 22 | On Aug. 9 the firm admitted that on several occasions in 1990 it had manipulated auctions of US securities by bidding for more than 35 per cent of the securities on offer , thereby exceeding the government 's ceiling on acquisitions by primary dealers . |
| 23 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 24 | Once again the control cleavage pattern reappears very slowly so that at several sites the reaction is not complete even after 30 minutes . |
| 25 | But it seems to me that by several cultural tests — a preference , for example , for a nice cup of tea — she is . |