Example sentences of "[prep] be several " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time , however , she came by low loader rather than under her own steam and although it had been laid most expertly by BR staff , the track she was unloaded onto was several hundred yards from the nearest railway line . |
| 2 | I could n't fault the descriptions , although I did find it a little irritating to be several paragraphs into each section before the actual route of ascent was revealed . |
| 3 | There would have to be several men involved in the racket , McCloy himself , two or three men to commandeer the lorry and incapacitate the driver as well as Hatton . |
| 4 | The disadvantages are the time it takes to build , and if you 're employing a builder , the cost — likely to be several thousand pounds for even a simple single garage . |
| 5 | The aftermath is seen , but it was to be several days before the damaged locomotive could be removed . |
| 6 | LONDON , when John Cranko arrived , was suffering the after-effects of an exhausting war , and it was to be several years before the restrictions and shortages were overcome . |
| 7 | The private-sector contribution to these schemes was intended to be several times larger than that of the public sector . |
| 8 | The implication is that some Upper Carboniferous rocks of the foreland are still in the oil window , and that even if fairly high regional palaeogeothermal gradients are assumed , the gas preservation limit is likely to be several kilometres deep where the high-volatile coals occur . |
| 9 | This is likely to be several months after full recovery . |
| 10 | There appear to be several major faults in the reasoning that animal decline was the result of such plant disappearances . |
| 11 | A large amount of the proceeds , ‘ expected to be several thousands of pounds ’ , is to go to the Leonora Children 's Cancer Fund . |
| 12 | She , the guide , may seem to be several steps removed from the hurly-burly of normal life , living in another dimension , having a clearer vision of past and future than we normally attain . |
| 13 | Even if one is as generous as possible regarding the size of the error , the figure would still turn out to be several tens of millions of lost lives . |
| 14 | Not only is his score likely to be several shots better , but a little success on the greens can infect a golfer 's whole game . |
| 15 | Praxis says it is well down the development road of getting an ANDF installer up on another RISC , possibly the Inmos Transputer , whilst there are known to be several other key players keen to get installers up and running on their kit too ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 16 | With the back tyre likely to be several inches in the air , there 's no braking power to be gained there . |
| 17 | In taking this action , the duke showed himself to be several jumps ahead of the rest of the political community . |
| 18 | First of all , there seem to be several quite different types of trial dependent on the experience of the teacher in various respects . |
| 19 | There seem to be several reasons for its emergence : a backlog of untrained practitioners ; a desire to certificate practice , for a variety of reasons , including status ; labour shortages which require quick solutions ; and a growth of theory or technology in the field itself , requiring more systematic training than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 20 | Unclothed and at rest , cold-adapted humans can maintain a core temperature ( i.e. central body temperature , measured by mouth or rectum ) of 37°C in still air down to 27–29°C , or in water down to 35°C ; in either case the skin and extremities are likely to be several degrees cooler ( Edholm , 1978 ) . |
| 21 | She was found to be several months pregnant when she returned and was forced to marry William Wright of Louth , a plumber and glazier , at Haxey on 13 October 1725 . |
| 22 | Phillips , Chang and Buzzell ( 1983 ) also showed that it was quite possible for there to be several different degrees of differentiation . |
| 23 | He said there were to be several explicit love scenes . " |
| 24 | In 1677 Sir William Petty , an English scientist-scholar of distinction , declared that " of man itself there seems to be several species to say nothing of Gyants and Pigmyes or of that sort of small men who have little speech and feed chiefly on fish " , which is all of a piece with Sir John Mandeville 's wholly fictional fourteenth-century quest for " diversities of folkys and diverse shap of man and beistis " . |
| 25 | Her voice was deliberately childish ; she was acting , he realized , pretending to be several years younger than she was . |
| 26 | In certain cases ( eg the sale of a joint venture company owned by two groups ) there may be a strong desire on the part of the sellers for the liability to be several and proportionate . |
| 27 | In addition to the above general warranties , there are likely to be several warranties aimed at UK taxation . |
| 28 | In the first of what were likely to be several criminal prosecutions resulting from the collapse of the Lincoln , Keating was convicted of misleading small investors over the sale of junk bonds — high-risk , high-yield securities — in American Continental Corp. , of which the Lincoln was a subsidiary . |
| 29 | Putting this principle into operation was to prove more difficult and contentious than may have been foreseen , and it was to be several more years before the CNAA was to consider changes in practice and begin consultations towards a new balance of ‘ minimum of control ’ with the duties imposed by the Charter . |
| 30 | In taking this action , the duke showed himself to be several jumps ahead of the rest of the political community . |