Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] many [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IBOA negotiators argued forcibly on many points giving reasons as to why the Banks should concede a significant salary increase to our members . |
| 2 | The work continued under another architect , but the death of Marino , combined with the vast expense of the building together with the losses his surviving family also suffered at the hands of the new Spanish governors , meant that work stopped altogether for many years . |
| 3 | We recommended fibre found naturally in many foods to parents of infants <1 year of age , such as in pureed fruits , vegetables , and infant cereal . |
| 4 | The teddy , judging by the state of one foot , had obviously been excessively loved : his cloth fur had been hugged and stroked away in many places . |
| 5 | Even this has proved disappointing for its slow development of preventative medicine , but it contributed further to many changes . |
| 6 | On 5 October 1881 the SS Orient docked at Plymouth with 150 tons of frozen Australian meat on board , an event described vividly by many newspapers ( for example , Daily News , 5 October ) . |
| 7 | He came home with many stories about the strange , dark mysteries which he called Siberian Magic . |
| 8 | I came here by many paths . |
| 9 | It was usually taken , particularly when combined as it often was with the adjective " extraordinary " , as indicating a status superior to that of the resident : it became rapidly in many states during the later seventeenth century the most widely used of all diplomatic titles . |
| 10 | During his 32 years with Blandford Press , what started as a small list mainly of cacti and display books , expanded rapidly in many areas . |
| 11 | This powerful gift was gladly received and subsequently wielded effectively in many battles , earning Sigmar his nickname of Heldenhammer . |
| 12 | Another key point made in that report , and raised independently by many participants at the colloquium , was that the capacity of people to learn about and respond to HIV can be improved without resorting to the aid of high technology . |
| 13 | The story was an apparently true one concerning a certain butler who had travelled with his employer to India and served there for many years maintaining amongst the native staff the same high standards he had commanded in England . |
| 14 | He served there for many years , ultimately becoming chairman . |
| 15 | Hot gases from pyrites burners , mixed with steam , were passed over small blocks of moulded salt , a process which worked successfully for many years ; the works was absorbed by the United Alkali Co. in 1890 and the last Hargreaves–Robinson saltcake plant closed in 1918 . |
| 16 | They worked together for many years ; they would drink together on an evening . |
| 17 | The Marshalls , a well-known family engaged in flax spinning lived here for many years and many interesting people , including Wordsworth and Adam Sedgwick , were visitors . |
| 18 | The Brownes and their descendants lived here for many years and played a prominent part in the life of the village . |
| 19 | That I lived here for many years as a child , that — " |
| 20 | The firm traded there for many years and a number of well-known craftsmen served their apprenticeships at the works . |
| 21 | Shortly afterwards we moved to , and we lived there for many years . |
| 22 | This line-up recorded a couple of albums and toured successfully in many countries . |
| 23 | Such a curriculum had served well , and did so for many years afterwards , that small percentage ( less than 10$ ) who enjoyed grammar school education and were marked out to be the leaders of the nation . |
| 24 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
| 25 | This is not to be viewed as condescending : Roderick regarded himself as a student of the subject and said so on many occasions during the writing of the new book . |
| 26 | Despite the disputes that had occurred , and even though 1963 gave a strong indication that de Gaulle 's interpretation of the treaty might be very different , the Six had still in many ways continued to work in reasonable harmony on the Rome timetable . |
| 27 | Some of the corridors were straight , or at least ran straight for many metres . |
| 28 | The trials continued today with many competitors unaware of what had happened . |
| 29 | At the same time Miss Butterworth was employing women at the Flax Home Industry House at Grasmere and work continued there for many years . |
| 30 | Then the king 's son took her home to his father 's palace , and they were married , and lived happily for many years . |