Example sentences of "[be] [prep] several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car has been through several variations of engine size , but now like an ageing but still beautiful dowager , repeated facelifts can no longer wholly hide the ravages of time and progress . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 3 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 4 | The drug AZT , an inhibitor of DNA synthesis , has been for several years the only treatment for those with symptoms of overt AIDS . |
| 5 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
| 6 | In central New Guinea , for example , there are monocultures of taro ( Colocasia esculenta , Araceae ) in small gardens ; there is no general burning but the plantings are of several cultivars and the cropping period is brief , the fallows long . |
| 7 | Analytical entries , derived from scanning journals , are of several types — current awareness , enquiry answering , taxonomic , biographical , illustrations . |
| 8 | These are of several types but predominantly of the circular tumulus design with its stone base and decorative cornice ( 80 and 84 ) . |
| 9 | The terranes are of several types and include slivers of oceanic crust , fragments of intra-oceanic island arcs and slices detached from unknown continental margins . |
| 10 | The muscle fibres in the skeletal ( voluntary ) muscles of vertebrates ( the muscles , that is , that are concerned with locomotion ) are of several kinds . |
| 11 | These connections are of several kinds . |
| 12 | The results of a normal co-ordinate analysis are of several kinds . |
| 13 | Lindsell agrees that C&P 's 11 businesses [ see separate list overleaf ] are in several cases mature and that assessment of their future growth potential has to take account of this . |
| 14 | ( They may also have generated some demands by spreading the word about regimes and rules in the Northern Ireland prison system , which are in several respects more liberal than in England . ) |
| 15 | And donors are in several minds about making human rights a condition for aid . |
| 16 | His ‘ invention ’ , like that of hobbits , has been well-chronicled by Humphrey Carpenter ( Biography , pp. 64 and 172 ) ; the two cases are in several ways similar . |
| 17 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 18 | A marble and a stalls back seat could be worth several minutes of noisy bagatelle . |
| 19 | No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards . |
| 20 | When the wind is strong , which it can be for several days in a row , sailing is brisk but safe in the local sheltered area . |
| 21 | Well I have to say that much of the impact of this story depends upon your being able to see and think of Boy as beautiful , admirable and even adorable in the true senses of those difficult and dangerous but nonetheless precious and necessary words ; I suggest therefore that you amend my descriptions of Boy and his lover — but I anticipate myself , that was not to be for several weeks yet ; that ‘ Great Romance of Our Times ’ , as it became known amongst us , had not yet begun , its theme tune had not yet been composed on Gary 's piano , its scenario was not yet subject of our daily gossip and speculation , we were not yet auditioning for a place in the credits — The Friend , The Admirer , Blonde Man in Bar , Second Guest at Dinner Party . |
| 22 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 23 | These may be of several kinds : point mutations involving protein coding genes or tRNA ( 5–9 ) , or more substantial deletion ( 10–12 ) or duplication type mutations ( 13 ) , localized by most studies in a highly specific single-strand zone during replication ( 14–16 ) . |
| 24 | Workbooks can be of several types , ranging from those covering basic library skills based on the holdings of a specific library , to subject-related workbooks . |
| 25 | Settling tanks can be of several types , and they use the principle of slowing the rate of flow of the water to allow the solid particles to fall out as a sludge that can be removed separately . |
| 26 | Such electrodes can be of several types ; they may be fine glass tubes filled with solutions of drugs or salts to be pumped out close to specific cells , or they may be ‘ stimulating electrodes ’ designed to deliver trains of electric pulses — of the sort described in relation to LTP . |
| 27 | Well , Mansell who run , won yesterday 's Portugese Grand Prix is believed to be considering several offers to tempt him out of that so-called retirement . |
| 28 | They say he can be in several places at once , can work magic , hypnotise with his eyes , cause death , resuscitate corpses , make women pregnant with a glance . |
| 29 | Incredibly , it may not be until several hours later that mum follows her baby inside ! |
| 30 | When the incident had been over several minutes , Robert appeared , flustered because Lionel was not yet ready . |