Example sentences of "by several " in BNC.
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| 1 | The airbrakes should always be opened ( tying them open with a harness strap , if necessary ) as this reduces the lift and increases the ‘ lift-off ’ speed by several knots . |
| 2 | The main climb by several parties on the North Face , West Flank , Mittellegi Ridge and South Ridge of the Eiger will see the meeting of an international team on the summit , televised live . |
| 3 | A large stream , fed by several smaller tributaries , flowed across it , escaping through a cleft in the rim which formed a deep gorge . |
| 4 | The extra meeting was called for by several committee members . |
| 5 | Mr Lawson denied he had acted as if sterling was a full member of the EMS , but his decision to hold the pound above DM3 with higher base rates was seen by several analysts as just that . |
| 6 | The ‘ fog of war ’ — a phrase used by several administration officials to explain the confusion in the Panamanian command post — had prevented any clear view that an attempt to seize General Noreiga would succeed . |
| 7 | My thoughts were interrupted by several loud bangs from very close by , then two flares lit the sky , hanging eerily just above the trees , then drifting out of sight a short distance away , followed by a long burst of machine gun fire . |
| 8 | Earlier that evening we were visited by Brigadier Mills Roberts , accompanied by several senior Officers , whom I had seen on occasion at Petworth in Sussex ( Commando Group Headquarters ) . |
| 9 | And in the faculty he was surrounded by several men of substance with much the same opinions though with less hardness in their advocacy . |
| 10 | The agony of An Outcast of the Islands is heightened by several occasions when the meeting of eyes between those who have been in love is one of terrifying intensity . |
| 11 | The inadequacies of management in state enterprises have been described in dramatic terms by several Nigerian academic observers , one of whom wrote in 1974 that the reasons for the poor performance of the state-owned sector could be seen in the words of one observer ‘ in the over centralization of authority … inspired by sheer love of power ’ or by another : |
| 12 | Recent work by several anthropologists has stressed , by contrast , the State 's previously over-looked role as an exploitative mechanism , and this work has in most cases been influenced by Marxism [ e.g. Terray , 1977 ; Bloch 1977 ] . |
| 13 | This is controlled by several hormones , particularly growth hormone ( in both sexes ) and testosterone ( mainly in men ) . |
| 14 | In the case of kidneys , this is brought about by several factors — by changed rates of secretion of some hormones ( see Fig. 3.2 ) , by altered activity in the nerves going to the kidney , and by a reduction in blood supply to the kidneys . |
| 15 | Whether Diana 's interest in Birthright was planted by her obstetrician George Pinker , who was then its president , or by several of her friends who have had problems and become involved , her decision to add Birthright to her list of patronages marked a turning point in its history . |
| 16 | But if sound set back filmmaking style by several years , it offered a great boom for the British film industry . |
| 17 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 18 | However , the spokesman , Mr Vladimir Mestensev , said Mr Gorbachev had been outvoted by several Praesidium members led by the former Moscow Party Chief , Mr Boris Yeltsin . |
| 19 | During her Washington visit , Mrs Chamorro attended the launch of a Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Nicaragua , sponsored by several members of Congress . |
| 20 | That will be an uphill battle , and difficult to prove anyway , because the industry under private ownership needs to earn a higher return on capital — by several percentage points — than in public ownership to attract shareholders . |
| 21 | That will be an uphill battle , and difficult to prove anyway , because the industry under private ownership needs to earn a higher return on capital — by several percentage points — than in public ownership to attract shareholders . |
| 22 | Six minutes into the second half , Tranmere , always alert and certainly never overawed , equalised through a shot from their central defender Vickers who , viewed from the stand , looked offside by several yards . |
| 23 | Last night , before an ecunemical service attended by several thousand people outside Lockerbie town hall , some relatives gathered in the small church at Tundergarth , four miles away . |
| 24 | Vitoria , capital of Espirito Santo state on Brazil 's Atlantic coast , has recently become notorious as the home of a crime syndicate allegedly run by several state policemen , involving drug trafficking and stolen cars . |
| 25 | A CRUMBLING network the size of Belgium ; 2.7 million passengers a day ; the average Londoner 's travelling time to work 52 minutes and rising by several seconds each week . |
| 26 | The average Tube-goer 's travelling time to work is 52 minutes and rising by several seconds every week . |
| 27 | On his release General Jorge Videla , who unleashed both the military coup in 1976 and the campaign of repression that followed , promptly demanded vindication of the campaign , and was echoed privately by several serving officers . |
| 28 | But West Germany , always cautious about monetary union , has shrugged aside attempts by the Italians to bring forward by several months the start of the inter-governmental conference that will discuss the road to EMU . |
| 29 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 30 | The legal recognition of corporate character may be obtained either by a charter from the Crown , as in the case of most of our older corporations , like the Hudson 's Bay Company , some universities and their colleges , as well as of some more recent ones ; or directly by means of an incorporating Act of parliament , as in the case of certain public utilities ; or indirectly through an Act of Parliament like the Companies Act 1948 ( which has been amended by several later Acts of the same name , and consolidated by the Companies Act 1985 ) , which offers corporate character to any number of persons ( usually not less than seven ) associated for a lawful object , who are willing to comply with the statutory requirements as to registration and otherwise . |