Example sentences of "think [prep] several " in BNC.

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1	But I can think of several reasons to resent their existence .
2	‘ I can think of several women who did excellent post-maternity work .
3	‘ Oh I could think of several reasons . ’
4	You can probably think of several others , and mine is no means a definitive list .
5	Furthermore , this ‘ coolness ’ is carried over into a somewhat dull performance of the final movement Precipitato — I can certainly think of several lesser mortals who bring a greater degree of excitement to the music than does Gavrilov .
6	‘ Oh , I can think of several things , ’ she told him with soft-voiced hostility .
7	Of course , there is a place for one or two chief executives , but I can think of several names , which I will not mention , of former Labour and Conservative council leaders who could make an enormous contribution .
8	I can think of several .
9	But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely .
10	As he walked slowly home , Van Cheele thought about several things which had happened in and around the village recently .
11	Then he thought for several more hours .
12	She thought for several moments , then twisted his words in an effort to pin him down to something definite .
13	I thought of several things to say to him , but nothing sounded right .
14	He had to think for several seconds before he came out with , " Moi , je suis Italien . "
15	I think of several people .
16	We have erred I think in several instances to try and give a margin of flexibility er I think if we 'd really tried hard to follow a policy of restraint within the assumptions of this model , we could have produced even lower figures than we have .

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