Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [vb pp] several [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Now the figure is multiplied several times , from shirt vendors to tour guides to the youths who hustle tapes of ragga dances — usually just pirated radio shows — near the museum .
2 Removal expenses are also subject to inflation , where a player whose transfer requires a move is paid several times the cost of hiring removal men .
3 The process is repeated several times .
4 A debt of gratitude to Bill Pedler is mentioned several times for ‘ changing the atmosphere of the Club ’ .
5 Additive processes could hardly be simpler although it can lead to procedures of great complexity : a musical phrase of a certain number of notes is repeated several times , one note is then added and the new phrase again repeated .
6 For many individuals the experience is repeated several times a year , thereby constituting a serious infringement of their personal liberty , disrupting the lives of their families , often preventing them from complying with requirements for obtaining welfare benefits and effectively making them unemployable .
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