Example sentences of "[vb past] from several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From November , 1914 , Ruhleben ( racecourse stables outside Berlin ) housed for up to four years about 4000 Britons , who ranged from several honeymoon couples just arrived in Germany for their August holidays to dons and students on walking or reading parties , musicians and sportsmen snatched from festivals , and even a journalist with an ear supposedly close to the ground , Israel Cohen , a German correspondent for the London press who had cheerfully left on July 29 for his vacation near Dresden . |
| 2 | The concern of the six states of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) stemmed from several considerations : regret that two neighbouring Muslim states should be spilling one another 's blood ; anxiety lest the conflict provoke the intervention of one or both superpowers , with dangerous consequences ; fear lest member states be attacked by one of the belligerents if they were suspected of sympathizing with the other ; a feeling that a conflict of this sort diverted Arab and outside world attention and resources from the paramount issue of palestine ; a desire not to see either belligerent emerge from the conflict so strengthened by the spoils of victory as to become the most powerful entity in the Gulf ; and , finally , anxiety lest their internal security should be threatened as a by-product either of the war or of Iran 's revolution . |
| 3 | Thick pipes sprouted from several places in the range , some disappearing through holes in the ceiling , others through the floor , while one snaked along the skirting board before vanishing through a door . |
| 4 | The fuel for the plants came from several uranium mines located around the country . |
| 5 | The opposition within the Six came from several sources . |
| 6 | Requests for samples of his mould soon came from several laboratories , including the pathology laboratory at Oxford . |
| 7 | Arthur Benson recovered from several years of mental breakdown about two years previously and was in the evening summer of his life . |
| 8 | On the contrary , it appeared from several provisions relating to the Common Fisheries Policy that that policy , far from being exempt from the basic principles of Community law ( such as the prohibition of discrimination , the right of establishment and the principle of the free movement of goods ) , was expressly subjected to each of them . |