Example sentences of "several [noun pl] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleo had subsequently met the young De Belving several times at a squalid inn on the outskirts of the Burrows in order to have sex with him on a greasy , flea-invested bed in an upper room . |
| 2 | He had tried several times at a local shooting range but he could n't bring himself to pull the trigger . |
| 3 | The war which Edward thus inaugurated was to endure , with many intervals of truce and several attempts at a final peace , until the expulsion of the English from Gascony in 1453 . |
| 4 | After ordination in 1877 he went to teach near Chesterfield , then spent several months at the fashionable Jesuit church in Farm Street , London . |
| 5 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 6 | Robinson 's gardening began in the 1850s at Curraghmore , before several years at the National Botanic Garden in Glasnevin , Dublin , under David Moore [ q.v. ] , continued his education . |
| 7 | He worked for several years at the British Rail Works in Swindon , where he was regularly exposed to asbestos . |
| 8 | Under the reform , elections would be held under a system of proportional representation , with officials re-electable for four-year periods but unable to occupy several positions at the various levels of local and regional government at the same time . |
| 9 | Other projects in Europe include the development of several FELs at the Italian national laboratories in Frascati , and one is planned at the University of Twente , The Netherlands , based on a racetrack microtron accelerator equipped with a photocathode electron gun . |