Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | we then drove through Stansted , Bishop 's Stortford and into the Hadhams where we had a cup of coffee with our daughter , then on through several other villages and back home to Royston . |
| 2 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 3 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 4 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 5 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 6 | The whole penis is then rubbed with 33% calomel ointment which is kept on for several hours . |
| 7 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 8 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 9 | I keep it on for several days . ’ |
| 10 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 11 | The controversy smouldered on for several years fuelled by the entrenched views of some of the judges . |
| 12 | Such hopes as there may have been — American , French , even Vietminh — of a cease-fire or negotiated settlement lingered on for several months but once the French had begun fighting they presented their case , modestly , that military operations were designed with no thought of reconquest but simply to persuade the Vietminh that they had no hope of victory . |
| 13 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 14 | Normally , the time is fifteen minutes , and for fifteen minutes it 's five fifty , so if you 've got a lot of hair , it 's quite coarse , it 's going to go on for several months . |
| 15 | The list of things to be seen goes on for several pages , and most of them have three stars . |
| 16 | Dexter watched the conversation between his boss and Russell rattle on for several minutes . |
| 17 | By the time he got his foot to the brake pedal they were down among the mud and the car slid on for several yards before coming to a halt . |
| 18 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 19 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 20 | He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years . |
| 21 | In welcome contrast to the dimness and the heavy , ornate splendour that had gone before , the white ceiling and walls were unadorned and light poured in through several long windows . |
| 22 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126 degrees and each small bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 23 | Thomas Hardy 's Ale , brewed by Eldridge Pope , has an OG of 1126° and each nip bottle has to be laid down for several years before it is ready to drink . |
| 24 | Claudia stared at him blankly , unable to take it in for several minutes , and when she did she cried out and launched herself at him , her hands raised . |
| 25 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |
| 26 | Her daughter , Gemma , had been left money for her school dinners and an elderly neighbour took her in for several days before social workers took her into care last week . |
| 27 | Quite a high percentage of bar codes could only be read in after several attempts , and a not insignificant percentage simply would not read in at all . |
| 28 | The latter reduced hydro-electric power and caused the shutting down of several nuclear power stations when river levels dropped and the water in any case became too warm for effective cooling . |
| 29 | She ate it in her hand and washed it down with several glasses of Tizer . |
| 30 | This suggests that , in order to develop pupils ' grasp of the concepts , the criterion needs to be broken down into several more basic criteria relating to space-covering aspects and terminology . |