Example sentences of "[adv] have several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alain apparently had several secretaries . |
| 2 | So had several issues from the previous August when Lebanon 's football team under the captaincy of Pierre Gemayel , a Maronite Christian , had travelled to National Socialist Germany to attend the Olympic Games in Berlin . |
| 3 | One of Andrew Buccleuth 's analysts had looked carefully at the company since one of my big customers , a pension fund with vast resources to spend , had bought heavily into the company and so had several of my private clients . |
| 4 | Soon we were all jigging with mackerel feathers , V.I.P. 's included , and before long had several pails of twitching mackerel on deck . |
| 5 | And just to cap all this mythological irrelevance , the island of Vulcano is now linked by a small spit of land to another small volcano , Vulcanello , which used to be a separate island , and it has been suggested that this pair comprised the ‘ Scylla and Charybdis ’ , beloved of Homer and modern politicians , but then so have several other island pairs in the Mediterranean . |
| 6 | Why should a female want to pair up with a male that already has several females when there are bachelors around ? |
| 7 | While the yield to maturity is the single most commonly used measure of yield , it nevertheless has several disadvantages . |
| 8 | I have already had several occasions to remark that binary oppositions are , in Derrida 's phrase , violent hierarchies . |
| 9 | As a postgraduate physicist he had already had several requests for industrial consultancy advice resulting from his involvement in research into the behaviour of semiconductors , an area that was developing very fast . |
| 10 | No , they said , we are talking only about the responsible use of contraceptives by those who have already had several children . |
| 11 | And Mr Nelson has already had several enquiries from local companies keen to use the lifeboat as part of management training programmes . |
| 12 | When the gunner on the after twin-Lewis was killed , Tom Durrant took over although he already had several serious wounds , and he collapsed still firing these guns at the German destroyer on her third or fourth attempt to approach the ML . |
| 13 | The couple already had several quotes for new windows when the rep arrived at their home and were determined to get a better deal . |
| 14 | By the time the polytechnics were formally designated ( the first provisional designation of eighteen polytechnics was announced in May 1968 and the designations continued into the early 1970s ) , the CNAA already had several years of experience of validation procedures , of evaluating the quality of courses and their institutional environments . |
| 15 | Textile works that use surface or bore-hole water generally have several lodges or reservoirs to give a uniform stock for use . |
| 16 | ‘ I already have several houses , my dear Shiona . |
| 17 | His widow said yesterday : ‘ Money started coming in for a Denholm Elliott Project without me appealing for it and we already have several thousand pounds from British donations as well as £5,000 from Ibiza , where we lived . |
| 18 | Twins are more likely to be born to older mothers who already have several children ; they are likely to be born prematurely and/or have difficult births . |
| 19 | Glasgow still has several cigarette factories . |
| 20 | Apart from the question of the number of dimensions that space-time appears to have , string theory still has several other problems that must be solved before it can be acclaimed as the ultimate unified theory of physics . |
| 21 | The physiotherapist usually has several pillows available to support the patient , plus a wedge cushion , which is a foam support measuring about 2 feet ( 60 cm ) long , 2½ feet ( 76 cm ) wide , 6 inches ( 15 cm ) deep at the top , tapering down lengthwise to form the wedge shape . |
| 22 | The Imperial Japanese Navy still had several capital ships under construction when the Pearl Harbor fleet sailed , they were well aware of the American strength and had to , hopefully , deal a knock-out blow in Hawaii to allow supremacy in the Pacific . |
| 23 | Leonard 's mind was such that he always had several ironies in his fire at any one time , even when he was seeking to demythologise some of them ! |
| 24 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 25 | We know that we still have several hours of concentrated work ahead and another meal to look forward to at the end of the working day . |
| 26 | Forte has several two- or three-night leisure breaks packages on offer . |
| 27 | In addition to performance shortcomings steam disinfection also has several operational limitations . |
| 28 | Delft also has several fascinating museums and many old and attractive buildings and in the summer months you can see the sights without walking , simply catch the horse drawn tram or take a cruise in the canals . |
| 29 | One may also have several equations to solve rather than just one . |
| 30 | They were extremely angry , feeling that he had taken advantage of her age and vulnerability , and he also had several other children with women in the same area . |