Example sentences of "for several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All have doctorates in musicology from either Cambridge or Oxford ; two are currently associated with King 's College , Cambridge ( where the wellsprings of the English a cappella renaissance are to be found ) , and one has taught for several Oxford colleges that are also medieval choral foundations . |
| 2 | But then again , one might forgive such callowness in gratitude for several gems in this otherwise disappointing report . |
| 3 | Until 1986 Andy caddied for several players , including Gary Player and Bernhard Langer . |
| 4 | For several women an attachment to one sister , also married with young children , is the chief social focus of the week . |
| 5 | The benefits of the system have already been recognised and Thistle has been successful in securing a number of major contracts for several North Sea oil operators . |
| 6 | The Council of ( Agriculture ) Ministers agreed on Dec. 19 , 1989 , on a sharp reduction of the 1990 catch quotas for several North Sea species . |
| 7 | In addition , the Trustees of the Scottish Council Foundation granted funds amounting to £33,050 to the Scottish Council for several projects . |
| 8 | The sensation produced will , therefore , be a change of sonorous intensity from one ear to the other , consequent upon the displacement of the sound or of the singer from right to left , and the sane will he the case for several actors crossing one another on the stage . |
| 9 | Above them , on a grassy hill , loomed the Monument — an imitation ruined temple that could be seen for several kilometres around . |
| 10 | For several kilometres the track to Hamningberg follows the shoreline , in places along beaches covered in driftwood logs . |
| 11 | But she could n't just desert them , either ; for several members of the cast this play of Josh Thayer 's was the first decent break they 'd had , and she knew from dressing-room conversations just how much personal and emotional investment they 'd made in its success . |
| 12 | A type attribute may be used to distinguish amongst divisions in some respect other than their hierarchic position : the values for this attribute ( as for several others in the TEI scheme ) are not standardized , precisely because no consensus exists , or is likely to exist , as to a typology . |
| 13 | From the early 60's , while most company operations still relied on manual systems , the payrolls for several sites were processed centrally at Dartford using an ICL 1202 processor . |
| 14 | This appears to have been responsible for several stunts and was implicated in the general increase of physical violence against Jews in the East End in the middle 1930s . |
| 15 | Precipitation data for several systems have proved the validity of equation ( 8.54 ) . |
| 16 | There is the potential for several wards to share ideas and to develop broader understanding of each others ' specialisms and problems while building valuable resources in the form of teaching aids and expertise . |
| 17 | Five years after the NEDC/MSC report Training and Enterprise Councils ( TECs ) were launched , with an emphasis on the need to provide a meeting-ground for several interests : " Each TEC will shape its own agenda to reflect the special economic and social needs of the area . |
| 18 | NWW is basically graphic designer Stephen Stapleton , who lives in Ireland and is responsible for several productions ( The Legendary Pink Dots , for example ) and lots of art work . |
| 19 | The two partners tendered for several workplace nursery projects but in each case found themselves losing out to competitors who were already running nurseries . |
| 20 | And it is a convenient starting point for several excursions . |
| 21 | Part of Mount Elgon is a national park , a protected area for several species of animals , including elephant and buffalo . |
| 22 | ‘ The smaller ones will be rented out for several Christmases . |
| 23 | As in the case of protein profiles , the DNAs of these recombinant viruses revealed no signs of instability , indicating that the triple and quadruple recombinant viruses are stable at least for several passages . |
| 24 | As a capital city whose population includes , among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-Christian religious observance . |
| 25 | As a capital city whose population includes among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-christian religious observance . |
| 26 | The award for best British film went to The Crying Game , which , along with Howards End , has been nominated for several Oscars . |
| 27 | If we wished for a more restful effect we could use far less harmonic change , holding chords for several beats ( Example 35 ) : This shows how a broad area of melody can be accompanied by the same harmony . |
| 28 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 29 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 30 | Prior to his dismissal he had been widely regarded as Manley 's heir-apparent , and he had served as acting Prime Minister for several periods during Manley 's illness in 1990 . |