Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [prep] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 2 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 3 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 4 | There is some evidence that cervical cancer is more common in women who smoke cigarettes , especially heavy smokers or women who have been smoking for several years . |
| 5 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the bank told The New York Times : ‘ We are looking at several options . |
| 7 | We are looking at several opportunities and will benefit from our involvement with the quarrying side of Wimpey Minerals which has always been involved in marketing its products on a free-market basis , ’ says John Chance . |
| 8 | Borough council officers are looking at several ways of helping disabled motorists to shop in the town once High Row and Skinnergate become off bounds to them on March 29 . |
| 9 | But while the exact timing of this pattern of events was unusual , the return of the overall pattern in the early 1980s comes as little surprise to some researchers , who have been warning for several years that a new drought cycle was due . |
| 10 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 11 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 12 | Manning Jackson had been fretting for several minutes . |
| 13 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 14 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 15 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 16 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |
| 17 | Among the host of popular classes that have been running for several years — upholstery , art , body conditioning , keep fit , body talk , jazz dance , electronic organ , and two levels of French — there are also the more recent additions of appreciation of poetry , yoga for beginners and dressmaking . |
| 18 | This new magazine is modelled on the successful ‘ English Civil War Notes & Queries ’ which has been running for several years . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 22 | I told the housekeeper that I would be staying for several days , and then went straight to my aunt 's room . |
| 23 | I 'm not , it 's only over a two week period , they 're jammed in , I 'm getting in several days , all I have is three exams |
| 24 | Some of this evidence comes from a corpus of anaphoric expressions from published material that we have been collecting for several years ( for a preliminary report see Garnham & Oakhill 1989 ) . |
| 25 | Some of these extra students will be people who are entering after several years in employment , or after years spent bringing up a family ; others will be coming straight from secondary education . |
| 26 | The NI Tories are standing in several constituencies apart from North Down where their candidate is Dr Laurence Kennedy , the animating spirit of the party . |
| 27 | ‘ I am practising hard to try to find the answer and I am playing in several events in the next few weeks and hope it comes right . ’ |
| 28 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 29 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 30 | The movies were advancing on several fronts and the social theme was but one strand in a more complex whole . |