Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | His ‘ invention ’ , like that of hobbits , has been well-chronicled by Humphrey Carpenter ( Biography , pp. 64 and 172 ) ; the two cases are in several ways similar . |
| 2 | The terranes are of several types and include slivers of oceanic crust , fragments of intra-oceanic island arcs and slices detached from unknown continental margins . |
| 3 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
| 4 | The casualties were of several different nationalities . |
| 5 | John Hitchin of Phoenix Bookshops was among several respondents to comment that ‘ customers were definitely treating books as gifts ’ . |
| 6 | In central New Guinea , for example , there are monocultures of taro ( Colocasia esculenta , Araceae ) in small gardens ; there is no general burning but the plantings are of several cultivars and the cropping period is brief , the fallows long . |
| 7 | And donors are in several minds about making human rights a condition for aid . |
| 8 | These connections are of several kinds . |