Example sentences of "been several " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries . |
| 2 | There must have been several dozen possible suggestions for an essay from that paper — political , industrial , military ( the Korean war was still ongoing ) , in sport or arts , etc. etc . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , there have been several incidents in the capital recently . |
| 4 | There had been several German counter attacks on the Commando positions around the village during the past three days . |
| 5 | There had been several local , peripheral wars in which Britain had been engaged , notably that in Korea in 1950–3 , and a long series of conflicts to resolve colonial problems — Malaya in the late 1940s , Kenya and Cyprus in the 1950s , Suez ( most traumatically ) in 1956 , Aden and Southern Arabia in the sixties . |
| 6 | There have been several cases in the last few years in which police and Immigration Officers have raided factories and taken workers away . |
| 7 | There have been several false alarms in the tabloids , but at the end of 1986 reporters thought they had a scoop . |
| 8 | During the past week there have been several occasions where people have been meddling with candles and other things in the church , including the money boxes yet again , and so it is with some sadness that I have decided to keep the church locked during the holiday period . |
| 9 | There have been several protest meetings in the city every day this week , though not on the scale of the Prague protest . |
| 10 | There have been several protest meetings in the city every day this week , though not on the scale of the Prague protest . |
| 11 | Granada has a £63million stake in BSB and said there had been several approaches for Alan Bond 's major stake in the venture . |
| 12 | There have been several arrests , following knife fights between drunk latinos . |
| 13 | He reacts strongly to any suggestion — and there have been several over recent months — that his emotional ups and downs are part of a manic-depressive syndrome . |
| 14 | But after what I understand would have been several years of compulsory Russian , he could barely manage da and nyet . |
| 15 | The dental remains indicate little more than a dependence on a hard-fruit diet , and there may have been several species with this inclination . |
| 16 | And there have been several major episodes of extinction ( Chapter 6 ) , when the cast of characters in the sea changed almost totally . |
| 17 | There have been several examples of ethnic customs with regard to dress conflicting with school rules on uniform . |
| 18 | Maggie had forgotten about them , but there were several — or had been several — in Heymouth , including one in the lighthouse . |
| 19 | There had been several witnesses . |
| 20 | If he claimed to remember nothing , Murray might be suspected of stealing the letter — unless he also claimed that it was a forgery ; there had , indeed , been several of those . |
| 21 | In particular , there have been several complaints of heavy-handed policing of demonstrations , of which three examples may be given here . |
| 22 | He found he was still standing there some minutes later , not because the traffic had been particularly heavy — there had been several opportunities to cross — but because he was lost in thought about what he had seen . |
| 23 | there had been several accidents to conductors swinging along the open-sided cars . |
| 24 | They can not compete within the visible spectrum , but they will be highly competitive throughout the infrared and perhaps also in the ultraviolet and soft X-ray regions , where there have been several significant developments recently . |
| 25 | There have been several changes in both areas since then . ) |
| 26 | As discussed previously , prostaglandins , thromboxanes and their precursor arachidonic acid are critical substances in platelet metabolism ( Samuelsson , 1977 ) , and there have been several studies of the activity of the prostaglandin pathway and thromboxane synthesis in platelets from diabetic subjects . |
| 27 | Although still in its infancy , there have already been several approaches to case-mix accounting . |
| 28 | There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones . |
| 29 | Both had been having affairs and there had been several brief separations . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , there have been several studies of patients who cut themselves which are very informative for the clinician ( Clendenin and Murphy 1971 ; Rosenthal et al. 1972 ; Simpson 1975 ) . |