Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] several [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 16–5 shows data for several advanced countries in 1983 . |
| 2 | Analyses of data for several developed countries confirm that maternal age and parity appear profoundly to affect mothers ' health before and after confinement . |
| 3 | Both reports constitute post hoc analyses of data on several thousand patients followed up for varying periods at regional hypertension clinics . |
| 4 | The attack was believed to have been in revenge for the killing by government militia of several Moslem farmers worshipping in a mosque in the neighbouring town of Pikit . |
| 5 | Carolco recently raised close to $100m from several European investors , including Giovanni Agnelli of Fiat . |
| 6 | But to compensate , the amount of goods ‘ personal shoppers ’ can buy in shops abroad will increase from its present £420 to several thousand pounds . |
| 7 | A fair-sized hospital of about 400 beds will have a staff of several hundred physicians and 1,200 to 1,500 paramedics divided among some 60 medical and paramedical specialists . |
| 8 | The abbey he lorded was essentially a preserve for the well-endowed ; thirty or so monks surrounded by a staff of several hundred servants , controlling the life of a substantial area . |
| 9 | According to preliminary reports , the quake killed more than 100 people in several remote towns and villages and in Kutaisi , Georgia 's second largest city . |
| 10 | Within the study area there are about 120 species including several new records for the North Atlantic . |
| 11 | Commonly , they contain species from several different kinds of natural habitat . |
| 12 | The current leader of Nihon Kominto , Ryumin Oshima , made a sworn deposition that he had been offered a total of some 5,000 million yen by several senior LDP figures — including 3,000 million on Kanemaru 's behalf — to stop his group 's loud-speaker barracking campaign against Takeshita . |