Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] [prep] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential dangers of the unthinking use of league tables , however , as currently presented have been pointed out by several authors . |
| 2 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A reputation had been built up over several years for the use of computers in the fields of manpower planning , personnel statistics and other industrial relations applications . |
| 5 | The company 's database of reactions contains information on over 500,000 compounds , and the expertise to operate many of these on a commercial scale had been built up from several decades of process development by Kodak , Eastman and Sterling . |
| 6 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 7 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 8 | The truth is that Libya has been stiched up on several occasions since Libyan oil was nationalised in 1969 and Gaddafi refused to behave like the American client his predecessors used to be . |
| 9 | I was trying to do , single-handed , what in previous days would have been accomplished only by several women in a family all working together . |
| 10 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 11 | His tenure of the post was short : his health had been declining progressively for several months as a result of overwork , and he died 5 February 1882 at his home at 7 Cornwall Street , Edinburgh . |
| 12 | The recessionary scenario has been played out in several U.S. institutions in the past two years . |
| 13 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 14 | His Disco Roadshow business , called Darlington Number One , has been hired out for several parties and functions in the Darlington area . |
| 15 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 16 | We had been hillwalking together for several years , and by this time were well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each other 's paces . |
| 17 | The question of arming our cutters has been discussed fully on several occasions and a decision against this step has always been reached . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |