Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [vb past] several [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 By the time the polytechnics were formally designated ( the first provisional designation of eighteen polytechnics was announced in May 1968 and the designations continued into the early 1970s ) , the CNAA already had several years of experience of validation procedures , of evaluating the quality of courses and their institutional environments .
2 Mr Giuliani has been unable to focus voters ' attention on the fact that Mr Dinkins once went several years without paying his taxes , or that he is a product of a corrupt Democratic machine .
3 Alain apparently had several secretaries .
4 The Ell Brook formerly worked several mills , including Oakle Pitcher Mill and Brass Mill .
5 Monaco also had several demands to make of Otto and was present at his coronation on 12 July 1198 , possibly to seek that the Lombard cities should be free from imperial encroachments .
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