Example sentences of "[noun] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gillroy and Davies hit the roof several times before managing to strap themselves down in the cabin , where all they could do was sit ashen-faced and pray . |
| 2 | And over the past eighteen months several agencies , among them the International Fund for Ireland and LEDU , have begun to have a presence in the most economically underdeveloped areas and to make claims about how they are targeting resources on places like West Belfast . |
| 3 | When a horse is given an injection , it is usual to pat the horse 's neck several times on the spot where the needle will be inserted . |
| 4 | In setting up his assignment at the University of Alabama , Donleavy had assumed that Coleman would return to Cyprus with Mary-Claude and Sarah in February 1988 , but analysing the personal histories of foreign scholars produced such interesting results that the DIA several times postponed his departure . |
| 5 | One of those under investigation , former Interior Minister Andras Benkei described the allegations as " rubbish " , but the Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet alleged that Carlos and members of his group had stayed in Hungary several times in the late 1970s and early 1980s and that leading communist officials had been aware of their presence . |
| 6 | Season inside the bird with salt , the truss it and prick the breasts and legs several times with a fork . |
| 7 | We bought a fridge for our caravan that developed a fault several months after the guarantee expired . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , she had to retrace her steps several times , though she still made sure to pick routes which moved ahead of the breeze . |
| 9 | In some people ketamine has the potential for compulsive , repeated use ; cases of self administered injections several times daily over prolonged periods have been reported . |
| 10 | Before the end of term several advisers made visits to the school to outline the operation of the scheme in more depth and to expand on the written guidelines for producing the self-appraisal documents . |
| 11 | From 1931 to 1932 Hopkinson was at Wana , Waziristan , an isolated spot where he saw action several times . |
| 12 | Three quarters of an inch of small print by waste disposal company Leigh Environments Ltd , lost among the Public Notices in the Manchester Evening News in April 1990 , complying with the legal advertisement of application to the Trafford Park Development Corporation to erect and operate toxic and clinical waste incinerators burning 26,000 tons p.a. in Nash Road at the Barton end of the Park , spurred into action several individuals who were aware of the health and life threatening potentiality of incinerating bitumens , acid tars , industrial cleaning fluids , engineering oils , solvents , agricultural wastes , fungicides , paints and above all polychlorinated biphenyls which are dioxin and furan generating , highly toxic , carcinogenic , teratogenic , difficult to destroy ( shades of Vietnam 's ‘ agent orange ’ and Italy 's Sevaso disaster ) , the incineration of which in ships in the North Sea had been banned by the E.E.C . |
| 13 | The thought of launching/landing the boat several times in one day does n't seem to bother the Australians at all . |
| 14 | It rammed the boat several times and disgorged human remains before tearing its way free . |
| 15 | One , Destina Momrosier of Port-au-Prince , said she had taken the boat several times , usually with 500-600 other passengers , but she estimated that as many as 1,500 probably could fit aboard . |
| 16 | A mitochondrial mutant strain of D.subobscura has two mitochondrial genome populations ( heteroplasmy ) : the first ( 20–30% of the population , 15.9 kb ) is the same as could be found in the wild type ; the second ( 70–80% of the population , 11 kb ) has lost by deletion several genes coding for complex I and III subunits , and four tRNAs . |
| 17 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 18 | ‘ Although the data often contained grammatical sequences several words long ( e.g. ME ABOUT BEEF ) , which would have made highly reliable predictors , these sequences seldom corresponded to complete templates and hence could not be detected by the precomputed production conditions . |
| 19 | Derry , in particular , seemed to be in a state of constant turmoil as marchers broke the government 's ban on processions several times a day . |
| 20 | Mrs Webster said that she came into my bedroom several times , fearing I might be in a coma ! |
| 21 | Ever since he 'd turned up in her bedroom several nights before , he really had become her shadow , staying constantly by her side . |
| 22 | Two to three hours after oral or intravenous administration it is often present in tissues and body fluids at concentrations several times higher than in serum . |
| 23 | They admit to having tentative discussions with Lindner 's agent several weeks ago but quickly lost interest in view of the player 's sky-high demands . |
| 24 | Mr Crump read Hope 's card several times and knew that he ought to be impressed . |
| 25 | What seemed most real was that Heby would have a new father — someone who was there , instead of a remote figure several days ' sail upriver . |
| 26 | And if there were only two thousand living souls in Famagusta several days ago , there would be fewer now who were both soldiers and active . |
| 27 | Paulos is admirable on the nature of coincidence — the inevitability of improbable events — on the logic of gambling in its various forms from coin-tossing to the Stock Exchange ; the Gambler 's Fallacy ( the belief that when a coin has landed heads several times over , there is an increased probability that tails will turn up on the next throw ) ; Pascal 's wager ; Condorcet 's paradox ; the prisoner 's dilemma . |
| 28 | ( In this extract several pieces of Owen 's dialogue have been put together . ) |
| 29 | The bullets were no longer coming close , however , and by the time she pulled herself into the shadow of the side of the opening , they were chipping the rock several feet away . |
| 30 | He took a mouthful of beer and swilled it round his mouth several times to rinse the remains of his meal from his teeth . |