Example sentences of "be used for several [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Check lists are used for several purposes : an initial transcription of a language is usually not consistent .
2 At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years .
3 Many early stations were simply large barn-like structures , a form which was to be used for several decades .
4 It 's completely restored and it was used for several films — Macbeth and Becket , to name two of them .
5 This post was used for several weeks before the men were recalled , despite their plans for a raid ‘ fixing charges to the noses of planes ’ .
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