Example sentences of "[adv prt] to several " in BNC.
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| 1 | These young London detectives would come out with us for a meal , after we 'd finished the court-work , go down to several famous pubs , and order several drinks . |
| 2 | A neurone will emit impulses at a rate of from zero up to several hundred per second . |
| 3 | Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year . |
| 4 | Frequently , too , there are major structural changes to the volcano , with a large part of it being blown away or collapsing to form a gaping crater , up to several kilometres across . |
| 5 | The chemical , which is about 150 times as toxic as cyanide , has turned up in the soil and in waters that flow into the Mississippi River at levels up to several hundred times those thought to be safe . |
| 6 | Film , camera body , lenses and ultimate processing will add up to several times that of the more commonplace 35mm unit . |
| 7 | The word ‘ appears ’ is used advisedly because , although computers have been used to show that the equation does not work for values of n up to several thousand , no one has yet been able to prove for certain that there is no number n greater than 2 for which suitable values of x , y and z can not be slotted in to produce a valid equation . |
| 8 | Bartlett was particularly concerned with stories , and in his method of serial reproduction people re-told the same story at varying intervals up to several months after it was presented . |
| 9 | Taking the supplied fuel bottle filled to the recommended level gives sufficient burning time for a trip of up to several days . |
| 10 | They may build up to several hundred after arrival in September/October . |
| 11 | Experimentally , good-quality LEED I-V spectra can be obtained at energies up to several hundred electronvolts without the difficulties associated with photoelectron , Auger electron and diffuse LEED patterns . |
| 12 | Some remaining Texas Instruments employees will be involved in transition efforts that could continue for up to several years , while others will be offered positions elsewhere inside Texas Instruments . |
| 13 | The mineralisation comprises large numbers of long ( up to several kilometres ) , narrow ( less than 10m ) , steeply-dipping oreshoots of limited vertical extent confined to a small number of massive limestone or sandstone beds . |
| 14 | The gold is associated with massive SW-NE trending quartz veins up to several metres wide and several kilometres long . |
| 15 | The resources support team organized by Mr Ryder 's advisory section brought together experienced MROs and school librarians ; the team as a whole planned a range of activities , including exhibitions , in-service training , and the compilation of catalogues and lists , and in addition supplied pairs of specialists who would " " immerse themselves " in schools for up to several weeks at a time building up a resources centre and advising on the use of resources generally . " |
| 16 | This latter emission is a well-known indicator of shock activity for shock velocities of up to several hundred kilometres a second . |
| 17 | occurring amino acids in proteins , and any individual type of protein is a unique sequence of up to several hundred such amino acids . |
| 18 | But foxes that get mange die in three or four months — the mites build up to several thousand per square centimetre of skin , and so one fox may have more than a million mites ; its suffering must be awful . |
| 19 | Sulphates are less subject to dry deposition than sulphur dioxide and consequently remain in the atmosphere for days , travelling up to several thousand kilometres in favourable meteorological and synoptic conditions . |
| 20 | In areas Where heavy rainfall scavenged the radionuclides from the atmosphere , radiation levels peaked up to several hundred times higher than background levels . |
| 21 | Derwent ( 1982 ) suggests that current upper tropospheric aircraft operations may have already led to such an increase in the total ozone column by up to several per cent . |
| 22 | At first I was doubtful about taking him , for he did not look strong ; but the Sandfords assured us that he had stood up to several long treks with them , invariably producing good meals even under the most unfavourable conditions , that he never interfered with other people , and was always ready to lend a hand at any job . |
| 23 | Slices may be up to several centimetres thick . |
| 24 | The hardware choice is actually simple : standard IBM AT clones from several dozen different manufacturers are now powerful enough to handle mailing lists up to several hundred thousand addresses . |
| 25 | Free water , as in cerebrospinal fluid and urine has a long T2 of up to several seconds , whereas water bound in protein , as in muscle tissue , has a shorter T2 of some 100 ms . |
| 26 | The inter-bank market ( loans from one bank to another from one day to up to several months ) . |
| 27 | Furthermore , pollinators are directed to suitable target sites for deposition of pollen by a series of rewards at those sites , whereas dispersers are not and indeed , jettisoning of the ‘ ballast ’ from their food as rapidly as possible is to their advantage : food may take 10 to 20 minutes to pass through a bat or small bird , though up to several months in animals like the rhinoceros . |
| 28 | She says that people still spend on wedding dresses despite the recession — up to several thousand pounds — and that white weddings are here to stay . |
| 29 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 30 | So again we 're going to come back to several themes in a fairly repetitive way , and we — do n't forgive us for this if you do n't like it , but we 're certainly going to talk about certain things again and again and again , but what it really comes down to , is ‘ Learn what the media 's all about , learn what they want , learn what you can provide , see whether you can match this , in a sense , and see whether you can make it work to your advantage ’ . |