Example sentences of "[is] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've said that when it 's a baby inside its mum , does n't have to control its own temperature , and in actual fact it 's several days after birth , after the baby 's born that it can effectively produce its own heat and its metabolism functions efficiently . |
| 2 | Right there are two kinds of courts that policemen , well there 's several kinds of court , but the main courts that policemen go to are a magistrate 's court where there is what 's known as , they are magistrates or JPs , Justice of the Peace , and they sit there and you have to give evidence . |
| 3 | . Especially if there 's several others complaining as well . |
| 4 | And I 've , I 've done that and it , there 's not one thing you can point to and say there 's no one in here because it 's several things , altogether , that indicate it , it might have been there 's no car on the drive , there might 've been , there might 've been milk still out . |
| 5 | There 's several chapters convincing you that your kid really needs a computer at home ( but you know that or you would n't have bought the book ! ) and there 's a danger of ending up convincing yourself that your offspring could become educationally subnormal unless you get a computer immediately . |
| 6 | In fact there 's several chapters dedicated to software , particularly educational software and Toni Mitchell is obviously passionate about her subject … ‘ in 20 years of teaching I have never seen any teaching tool or method that captures the imagination and excites the enthusiasm and interest of the children as much as quality computer software . ’ |
| 7 | No doubt , there 's several of you here who are guilty of this . |
| 8 | Erm we 're very strong in the manufacturing arena and there 's several applications based on on er which are u delivering CAD solutions in fact . |
| 9 | Well there 's several roads comes down into |
| 10 | Now clearly it makes no sense you might be up to producing the Toyota Corollas in a three hundred acre plant , erm , near Derby right but we ca n't employ the same techniques in production er when we 're making agricultural why not well essentially we 're using land , we 're using land intensively alright and there comes a point when , erm you reach dis-economies of scale and start er accruing dis-economies of scale in agricultural production and that scale of plant is very , very small but after about well it depends what type of production er what type of product you 're making but , you know , there are n't many farms over five thousand hectares , now five thousand hectares is a huge farm , it 's massive alright but it still only produces a fraction of , say U K output cos there 's several million hectares of erm but the reason why you do n't see these very large farms is that you just do n't reap the economies of scale alright , because essentially we need land erm and you 're farm gets so big that it would take you half the day to drive your combine harvester over to the , the other side of th your farm just to erm , to harvest the , the wheat right . |
| 11 | When I said to you earlier erm there 's several ways in which you can help me now the main way you can help me is erm is er the way I do , the way I prefer to do business is by personal recommendations and you 've seen the service that I can give you , you 've seen , we 've been through your , your personal situation , your financial situation , have you found that of benefit ? |
| 12 | There 's several being done . |
| 13 | There 's , there 's several had the flu and there 's three of them next to me with a headache yesterday . |
| 14 | Our mum 's several times her rings has gone on her cooker she 's had to buy a new element and she 's switched to gas . |
| 15 | So it 's several . |
| 16 | There 's those coats Gordon , there 's several of them after those coats that er I got ta take them for . |
| 17 | Well , yeah , no , it 's , it 's just that I 've , there 's several screws and bits and pieces missing . |
| 18 | Your key performance indicators , there 's several indicators , if you like , indicating that your persistency is maybe going down , indicating that your product knowledge , you need a re-enlightened on certain products , if you like it 's warning shots across the bow , hey or it 's drawing your att , your attention to a certain area , yah ? |
| 19 | This was only part of a general sort of pattern as it were , where people were beginning to impinge on their lives , there was another well-known local alcoholic there who was knocking on doors trying to get money off people , and there 's several elderly people who gave this woman money , because they were frightened that if they did n't something would happen to them . |
| 20 | He always uses my first name , although he is several years my junior . |
| 21 | A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends . |
| 22 | True magnetic north , as measured by compasses , is several hundred miles to the east . |
| 23 | The hotel is several cosy lounges and bars , all furnished in the local style with lots of pine . |
| 24 | The same meeting also approved the Conveyances of the land from the Bolney Estate Company and Mr K.K. McKenzie , and the Trustees were authorised to pay over the sums of £3,000 and £1,000 respectively ( this is several weeks after part of the course had been opened for play ! ) , and Mr J. C. Walker , the Treasurer , was asked to draw up some proposals for the Club 's bye-laws . |
| 25 | In fact Cuzco is several hundred metres higher than it . |
| 26 | New brickwork , where visible , is several tones lighter than the original , to distinguish the building 's newest section . |
| 27 | It was found that the heatflow , or rate at which heat is moving upwards through the Earth 's crust , is several times higher along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge than on the ocean floor on either side . |
| 28 | As these winds fail the mass of ocean water that is piled up in the far western Pacific ( where the sea level is several centimetres higher than in the east ) comes flooding back . |
| 29 | Someone takes the hat round for us and the Craig Evans appeal is several pounds better off . |
| 30 | With the values used , the frequency is several kilohertz but is in no way critical for this present purpose . |