Example sentences of "[prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | But again is always an illusion , wrote Harsnet , for it would also become clear , the second time round , after several weeks , that one was not doing what one had hoped to do . |
| 2 | There are many other instances of Ashton 's witty beaten touches that may only become apparent after several viewings and are to be found in Birthday Offering , Sylvia , La Fille Mal Gardée and elsewhere . |
| 3 | Even when , after several hours , the majority of emigrants had set off , a group of young men wearing track suits remained in darkness at the back of the embassy , helping the most recent arrivals over the railings . |
| 4 | OIL RICH beats filthy rich every time , but after several years of battling to remain buoyant in the remorseless wake of the Maktoums , Robert Sangster clambered back on to terra firma with his most significant win for a long time in Saturday 's Hoover Fillies ' Mile at Ascot . |
| 5 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 6 | The march began after several thousand people had filled four churches to overflowing in the centre of Leipzig , for a special service of ‘ prayers for peace ’ . |
| 7 | After several public expressions of regret and an impressive start to the season , Goodway makes the party on the unanswerable grounds of form . |
| 8 | The statement said the arrests were made by the force 's organised crime task force , headed by Det Chief Supt Graham Melvin , after several months ' inquiries . |
| 9 | They set out to peak for this particular match , both to erase from their minds the upset in London two years ago and to prove they could manage a good performance after several indifferent ones . |
| 10 | After several months of working full eight-hour shifts , the constables frequently forgot that an outsider was present , or no longer cared , and the fieldworker experienced moments when it would have been difficult to maintain a front . |
| 11 | I look after several young bands . |
| 12 | In 1939 , after several years of study , the Conservative government attempted to reorganize the rather inefficient operation of the two airlines and to encourage more competition . |
| 13 | This was the issue which brought the Professional Footballers ' Association , founded in 1907 after several earlier false starts , into immediate conflict with the FA and the League . |
| 14 | ( It is known that performance deteriorates after several hours of work. ) 3 . |
| 15 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 16 | After several months ' work , during which time they lived in a caravan parked on the site , the owners , Mr and Mrs Bates were able to move into the future garage area of the building in August 1984 and to continue work on the upper-floor accommodation under the shelter of the reslated roof . |
| 17 | After several days of dividing their possessions into things they wished to keep and things which could be given away or sold , they were ready to leave the house for the last time . |
| 18 | After several months of stalling , he believed Hashemi had tricked him and he went to the United States to retrieve his money — and save his face with his ‘ superiors ’ in the PPP . |
| 19 | Witnesses said clashes erupted after several thousand ringed the Interior Ministry headquarters in Kishinyov , protesting against the detention of about 20 fellow nationalists who disrupted a 1917 anniversary parade on Tuesday . |
| 20 | After several months in hiding he crossed into Argentina and left for France . |
| 21 | The president of B'nai B'rith International , Mr Seymour Reich , said the organisation made the expulsion threat reluctantly and after several years of negotiation . |
| 22 | The president of B'nai B'rith International , Mr Seymour Reich , said the organisation made the expulsion threat reluctantly and after several years of negotiation . |
| 23 | After several days of heated debate , the Congress of People 's Deputies passed the programme , outlined by Mr Ryzhkov last week , without amendment . |
| 24 | After several sessions the international commission resolved the problem . |
| 25 | Or the link between inflation and unemployment may simply have been operating on a long lag , with the old , high NAIRU returning after several years to smack ministers in the face . |
| 26 | He had once summed her up to a female student , after several lagers , as ‘ no tits to speak of and even less bum ’ . |
| 27 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 28 | Armed with such views , Mosley entered upon a turbulent political career which saw him move from being the Conservative MP for Harrow in 1918 to , after several political adjustments , becoming Labour MP for Smethwick in 1926 . |
| 29 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |
| 30 | Puppies that could formerly avoid electric shocks , were unable to perform the avoidance responses after several months of isolation-rearing . |