Example sentences of "used for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact this is not an attempt to reverse pollution , but something more complicated : to create a plan that would enable Lake Ichkeul , in Tunisia , to be used for several different purposes simultaneously . |
| 2 | Many early stations were simply large barn-like structures , a form which was to be used for several decades . |
| 3 | Any one system may be used for several different purposes but the most common use was for outreach work . |
| 4 | Another important class of dental material used for several applications , including selected fillings , is glass ionomer cement , invented by Wilson and Kent and further developed by Wilson and co-workers at the Laboratory of the Government Chemist . |
| 5 | This post was used for several weeks before the men were recalled , despite their plans for a raid ‘ fixing charges to the noses of planes ’ . |
| 6 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |
| 7 | The frequent complaint that ships , once requisitioned , were not actually used for several months , thereby denying their owners the use of them in between times , was not always the fault of the wind or weather . |
| 8 | Embryonic fibroblast culture and replication banding has the advantage of providing a large number of slides and mitotic cells which could be used for several different probes but the disadvantages of having to pool a considerable number of embryos for the initiation of the culture and a lack of knowledge as to the source and lineage of the cells which become established in culture . |
| 9 | At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years . |
| 10 | Check lists are used for several purposes : an initial transcription of a language is usually not consistent . |
| 11 | It 's completely restored and it was used for several films — Macbeth and Becket , to name two of them . |
| 12 | The extra expense of making these sections is offset by their versatility : an uncovered DPT can be used for several different analytical purposes , and offers much more petrographic information . |