Example sentences of "been several [adj] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Although the incidence of gastric cancer is declining worldwide , especially in the developed countries of North America , Europe , and Japan , there have been several recent reports showing that there has been an increase in carcinomas of the cardia compared with carcinomas in the antrum .
2 There had been several small books published earlier .
3 We were in fact quite wrong as there have been several alldigital recordings made by the firm That 's Entertainment Records prior to ours , with the English National Opera .
4 While there have been several academic studies using data from the 1982 , and the subsequent 1984 BCS , there has been little or no independent research using the local data sets .
5 In recent years there have been several judicial attempts to define the scope of the doctrine .
6 On a more light-hearted matter there have been several amusing items discussed , including a subject that will probably have been a topic of conversation at a few lunch tables — uniforms .
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