Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of bands were hired several months ago to jolly up the celebrations , whose main participants appeared to be trade unionists who had been on free holidays to one of the last proletarian paradises . |
| 2 | Filters were rinsed several times at room temperature in a solution containing 0.1×SSC and 0.05% sodium dodecyl sulphate ( SDS ) to remove excess hybridisation solution and then washed at 55°C for 15 minutes in the same solution for detection of the PGA or PGC sequences . |
| 3 | However , the antibacterial properties of some Penicillium moulds were observed several times from the 1870s onwards , and Lord Lister treated a patient with a preparation of Penicillium before Fleming was born . |
| 4 | And in the second programme ( 24 March ) , these qualifications were repeated several times . |
| 5 | Their bodies were found several days later when neighbours alerted police . |
| 6 | The near vertical impact had made a crater some 20 feet deep with fragments of the aircraft scattered within a radius of about 300 yards , but the major units of the horizontal tail surfaces were found several kilometres from the main wreckage area , clearly indicating in-flight separation of these components . |
| 7 | So when expansion plans were announced several years ago , notwithstanding the restraint with which the library goes about its business , there was some cause for alarm . |
| 8 | These rulers were replaced several centuries later by the House of St Arnulf , the family line of Charlemagne . |
| 9 | Flowerbed obstacles were installed several months ago in both Magdalen Road and Howard Street , but have won few friends . |