Example sentences of "been [noun sg] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1985 , there has been action in several prisons over several demands , but perennially the amount of overtime that has to be worked . |
| 2 | The cow , worth thousands of pounds , had been champion of several shows and was due to appear at the National Dairy Event in Warwickshire next weekend . |
| 3 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
| 4 | The margin between the two rates had been zero for several weeks , reflecting the strength of the franc . |
| 5 | Three modal types can be distinguished : industry-wide , multi-employer bargaining which is external to the firm , as practised in much of Western Europe on wage-related issues ; single enterprise or firm bargaining , as typically found in the USA and Japan ; and economy-wide systems between trade union and employer central confederations which have been characteristic of several countries , including Norway , Sweden , Denmark and , at times , the Netherlands . |
| 6 | Even during my brief tenure at the Dispatch Box , the Secretary of State has been party to several actions to which parliamentarians and democrats should not be party . |