Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 2 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The theoretical proposal had been public for several years . |
| 8 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 9 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 13 | It had been silent for several minutes . |