Example sentences of "several were " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not think many of them bright ( but the record afterwards shows that several were very bright ) . |
| 2 | Several were undecided . |
| 3 | Last Friday in Meopham , Kent , several were thrown at him but missed . |
| 4 | A dozen of them sat there and terrified me , although several were later to become my friends . |
| 5 | Several were in groups of four , three standing slabs of stone over which a fourth lay as a roof , others lay tumbled in meaningless heaps , but still others seemed to be set in distinguishable lines and circles . |
| 6 | After the Reformation several were ordained in the Anglican Church while others became active Nonconformists . |
| 7 | At a team meeting on the night before the Bombay Test , tour skipper Gower soft-talked his team into playing even though several were upset by the no-nonsense attitude of manager Tony Brown , who angrily offered to send home anyone who disagreed . |
| 8 | Several were rebuilt to various extents , where necessary receiving replacements from the large stock of spare parts for Metropolitan cars , held at Hendon Works . |
| 9 | Throughout the fighting , the intelligence section had been searching houses and the German headquarters , and naval parties had boarded ships in similar searches — a dangerous task because several were killed as they rowed towards the quays in ships ' whalers . |
| 10 | It spans the room , looking purposeful — after all , arches were originally self-supporting structures , forming domes or vaults within buildings if several were used together , or making impressive bridges across rivers . |
| 11 | The US gunners were excited by the targets and even fired on some US aircraft flying to Ford Island from the Enterprise — several were shot down unfortunately . |
| 12 | Cave Squigs were unleashed upon the Dwarfs , but several were killed by Troll Slayers while others ran wild snapping at the Night Goblins , biting off limbs and heads before vanishing into the mountains . |
| 13 | Among the commentaries that appeared , several were by participants in the Council as members , periti or observers . |
| 14 | Among those interior residues , several were selected for site-directed mutagenesis on the basis of side chains that contain functional groups capable of forming hydrogen bonds with ligands . |
| 15 | The others were separately owned , but several were in partnership with a daily . |
| 16 | Many of its people were farmers too , though several were merchants as well — two drapers , a mercer , a haberdasher and a wax-chandler , and in 1584 Archdeacon Robert Johnson chose it as the location of one of the two grammar schools with which he endowed the county . |
| 17 | Rectories were often leased by absentee incumbents ; several were so leased in Rutland , mostly by gentlemen like John Digby , who farmed Preston . |
| 18 | A number of them were about 10% up on last year , and several were as much as 20% up . |
| 19 | There were many food kitchens and supplementary feeding centres run by Unicef and the Red Cross ; several were based on projects already started by local women . |
| 20 | They were selected on the basis of their general knowledge of the drug scene ( several were dealers and thus the centre of specific networks ) and their ability to communicate that knowledge . |
| 21 | The Commons could not agree on a scheme and several were inserted in the Bill by a temporary majority of one day and then removed by another majority later . |
| 22 | Several were almost tharn — that is , in that state of staring , glazed paralysis that comes over terrified or exhausted rabbits , so that they sit and watch their enemies — weasels or humans — approach to take their lives . |
| 23 | Leading Nazis were tried at Nuremberg in 1946 and several were sentenced to death . |
| 24 | One or two of the local gentry would be entering the wrestling ; several were in the horse races , although events such as the long leap and the high leap attracted less fashionable clients . |
| 25 | While participating Law Lords agreed with one another more frequently than they disagreed , the authors of the survey list thirteen items between 1956 and 1967 where there was a substantial measure of disagreement and of these several were not matters of technical law . |
| 26 | Boys will be boys and in spite of warnings at least one fatal accident occurred involving local lads , and several were injured . |
| 27 | Several were currently hovering above the table . |
| 28 | The attendees were mainly those responsible for the running of large office and retail complexes and several were surprised to discover that Rentokil were into this sector as well . |
| 29 | Single pieces of card , were used in some trials , in others several were used in a variety of positions relative to one another and to the central strip . |
| 30 | One person died and several were wounded in fighting at an opposition party 's rally in Lubumbashi , Shaba region , on April 14 . |