Example sentences of "at several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously if you are flying over a bad area , with very few good sized fields , it is necessary to divert towards the best area within range and to start looking seriously for a field at several thousand feet . |
| 2 | This figure was rapidly exceeded and by 1989 was carrying one million passengers annually , necessitating lengthening platforms at several stations along its route at a cost of £60,000 . |
| 3 | At several points the route was unclear , where the buffalo and other animals had churned the grass into a mass of muddy trails , so we trended upwards , away from the boggy sections and towards the crest of a broad ridge that formed one side of the river valley . |
| 4 | Needless to say these represent a large investment costs at several £k for the logic analyser . |
| 5 | Castleford were one of the clubs fined two seasons ago when an outbreak of brawling at several matches led to the League imposing new , stiffer penalties . |
| 6 | The cylindrical rooms which are logically formed within the tower at several levels are usually of quite small diameter — indeed , decreasing diameter the nearer they are to the top of the tower . |
| 7 | Thanks to improved fragrance technology , perfumers are now able to offer us subtly differing strengths of the same scent for different moments during the day : eau de parfum ( freshest of all ) eau de toilette , parfum de toilette , esprit de parfum , parfum — or even , for some famous names , parfum extra , ideal for knocking 'em dead at several paces . |
| 8 | Not one of the many East Berliners I spoke to at several crossing points said they meant to stay in the West . |
| 9 | Radicals hurled petrol bombs at several banks , set alight two offices of the Socialist Workers Party ( PSOE ) in Eibar and Lezo and ransacked the headquarters of a moderate Basque nationalist party . |
| 10 | He founded the Bank Poznanski , one of Poland 's first private banks , and now estimates his monthly income at several hundred thousand dollars . |
| 11 | Development had started in 1958 on multiple warhead rocket vehicles ( MRVS ) which separate in flight and could be aimed at several different targets simultaneously . |
| 12 | Similarly , some coins of the Emperor Septimius Severus which were minted at several cities in southern Greece are found , almost exclusively , in the Levant . |
| 13 | As extra-mural departments were established at several universities during the mid-nineteen twenties , the conjunction of the new Regulations and the entrepreneurial activities of departments such as Nottingham and Cambridge ( where the Board of Extra-Mural Studies replaced the Syndicate in 1924 ) led to a rapid growth in both scale and range of university provided courses . |
| 14 | Child care agencies may offer preventive services at several different levels . |
| 15 | Halogenation with facilities at several sites to handle bulk bromine , chlorine and iodine |
| 16 | National Lotteries have been found useful at several times in our history . |
| 17 | Eventually , after looking at several different rooms , Endill chose the one he wanted . |
| 18 | Clients choosing half board receive vouchers for their evening meal , which can be exchanged at several cafes and restaurants throughout the village and the pension is ideally placed for you to choose . |
| 19 | At several times , notably at the end of the Palaeozoic , they suffered massive and largely unexplained extinctions , a few survivors giving rise to the variety of forms that followed . |
| 20 | Of the Upton Mills , there are still remains at several sites , although a number of others have recently been demolished , apparently with little resistance , to disappear under intensive housing development . |
| 21 | He stated that , at several times during the following hours , Mr Oliver had been clear-thinking and articulate . |
| 22 | The actual rate of completion per annum over the last 27 years has been less than one half of one percent … thus even at several times the projected rate of progress , the great bulk of the conservation task will be incomplete at a time when the most vigorous additional demand is placed on land from massive upsurge of population . |
| 23 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 24 | Thus , when it is intended to export a product to a number of different countries it may , and often will be , necessary to carry out separate tests at several different conditions of temperature and humidity . |
| 25 | A stability test involves the accumulation of a substantial amount of data over a prolonged period of time and may require the production of reports at several stages of the test . |
| 26 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 27 | Control of protein synthesis can occur at several different points in the sequence of steps that leads from the DNA code to a fully formed protein . |
| 28 | This will happen more or less simultaneously at several points along the length of the dyke , hence the name fissure eruptions . |
| 29 | Lead was mined at several sites in Scotland 's Lowther Hills , and there are interesting remains of the industry here , which operated for about six centuries . |
| 30 | I was greatly attracted to Georgia , and was able to enjoy her company at several film shows or at dinners on evenings when neither of us was working . |