Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 26 July the rebels defeated part of the royalist forces at Edgecote and in the aftermath of the battle several of the king 's allies were captured and executed , among them Devon and Pembroke and two of the queen 's family , her father earl Rivers and her brother John . |
| 2 | On 26 July the rebels defeated part of the royalist forces at Edgecote and in the aftermath of the battle several of the king 's allies were captured and executed , among them Devon and Pembroke and two of the queen 's family , her father earl Rivers and her brother John . |
| 3 | At the next pass of the satellite several hours later , it was gone . |
| 4 | Due to the personal nature of the contract several problems will arise : ( 1 ) A vendor can not transfer an employee unilaterally against his will . |
| 5 | She suffered head , neck , back and leg injuries and still feels the effects of the crash several months on . |
| 6 | He says he was a little bit fed up becausehe had to plough up the same strip of the field several times for the film crew . |
| 7 | I repeat the address of the clinic several times . |
| 8 | He said the rise in unemployment figures in the town , from 4,365 to 4,482 , was an indicator of the state of the economy several months ago . |
| 9 | As a result of the action several school meals women became active in their unions . |
| 10 | But airport official Frank Walton , who is in charge of private plane facilities , said : ‘ I spoke to the man who said he was the pilot of the plane several hours after the landing and he definitely was n't John Travolta . ’ |
| 11 | He grabs the top edge with his hands , thumps the face of the buttress several times with his feet and then does the same thing on the other side of the buttress with his hands before springing down to the ground . |
| 12 | At an early meeting of the YCCC with the Middlesboro City Council , the latter having changed the date and place of the meeting several times in order to avoid having to directly face the group on the issues of the campaign , a staff member of Highlander posed as a member of the press and , with video camera in hand , asked questions on the Yellow Creek pollution directly to the Mayor , and filmed the result . |
| 13 | I queried the cost and funding of the magazine several times but never got an answer . |
| 14 | Duwayne ploughs stolidly up and down the length of the pool several times like a great slab of walrus . |