Example sentences of "[be] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must be several hundred quiet , individual meetings with individual families . |
| 2 | I could n't fault the descriptions , although I did find it a little irritating to be several paragraphs into each section before the actual route of ascent was revealed . |
| 3 | The achievement was quite otherwise ; but it would be several years before that could be perceived , and the perception validated . |
| 4 | there could be several pairs of these . |
| 5 | There would have to be several men involved in the racket , McCloy himself , two or three men to commandeer the lorry and incapacitate the driver as well as Hatton . |
| 6 | Polgar 's approach to teaching is , he says , that ‘ the pleasure of the accomplishment must be several times as much as the experience of failure . ’ |
| 7 | If I do n't tell , ’ she gripped the edge of the table , ‘ there will be several deaths this afternoon , less important to me , but much more sensational . |
| 8 | The researchers , who have been studying the organism for more than eight years , say it will be several years before a vaccine becomes widely available . |
| 9 | A Reuter spokesman said the company has reached an agreement with Japan 's Ministry of Finance on reporting requirements , but it will be several months before the system goes live in Tokyo . |
| 10 | The disadvantages are the time it takes to build , and if you 're employing a builder , the cost — likely to be several thousand pounds for even a simple single garage . |
| 11 | The aftermath is seen , but it was to be several days before the damaged locomotive could be removed . |
| 12 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 13 | The CEGB also anticipated that there would be several hours in which to warn the surrounding population that an escape of radioactivity was about to happen . |
| 14 | Brownsea can be several degrees warmer than the mainland . |
| 15 | In such cases , the building amplifies the motion it experiences at ground level , and the horizontal accelerations at the upper storeys can be several times those at the base . |
| 16 | Most often there is one copy of a given plasmid per chromosome , but with the small ones there may be several copies . |
| 17 | LONDON , when John Cranko arrived , was suffering the after-effects of an exhausting war , and it was to be several years before the restrictions and shortages were overcome . |
| 18 | Interspersed with the musical entertainment would be several lectures . |
| 19 | Watson ( 1986 ) suggests how some of the communication problems can be surmounted when in contact with minority ethnic groups who have difficulty with a second language but even within one language there can be several local vocabularies which strangers can not understand . |
| 20 | The private-sector contribution to these schemes was intended to be several times larger than that of the public sector . |
| 21 | In the centre would be several lines of trestle tables carrying cages for chicken , ducks and geese with a few tame rabbits . |
| 22 | The implication is that some Upper Carboniferous rocks of the foreland are still in the oil window , and that even if fairly high regional palaeogeothermal gradients are assumed , the gas preservation limit is likely to be several kilometres deep where the high-volatile coals occur . |
| 23 | This is likely to be several months after full recovery . |
| 24 | The cost over the next 10 years will be several billion pounds . |
| 25 | To help the reader test his or her understanding there should be several problems at the end of chapters , and worked examples in the text where a general law or difficult point is discussed . |
| 26 | There appear to be several major faults in the reasoning that animal decline was the result of such plant disappearances . |
| 27 | If you can not eat yoghurt , because of a sensitivity to milk , then commercial preparations of bacteria might be worth considering , but ask to see a bacteriological analysis showing how many live bacteria there are per gram ( there should be several million ) before buying . |
| 28 | In addition there will be several members of the trade exhibiting their products . |
| 29 | The body responds to an alumina implant by surrounding it with a fibrous capsule which can be several micrometres thick . |
| 30 | Although there might be several more R. K. 's in Overclyst , she felt certain that this was Roger Kenyon 's property . |