Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | This catalogue raisonné has been keenly awaited for several years ; work began before the artist 's death in 1988 , aged eighty-six . |
| 2 | Strike action on the coalfields was the major catalyst for the 1926 General Strike , and the miners have been widely perceived for several decades as at the forefront of trade union militancy in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | The ETC has been successfully established for several years and is very well equipped to provide all travel needs at the most competitive prices . |
| 4 | This rediscovery has come through historical exhibitions held recently at New York 's DIA Center for the Arts ( 1988–89 ) , Claude Berri 's RENN Espace d'Art Contemporain in Paris ( 1991–92 ) and at the Hallen für Neue Kunst , Schaffhausen , where Ryman 's art has been prominently featured for several years and a fresh installation opens shortly ( 2 May-31 October ) . |
| 5 | The ultrabasic rocks have been extensively affected by several phases of hydrothermal alteration . |
| 6 | This is a significant area of importance in the Catholic school and has been clearly expressed in several documents but attention is drawn to Position Paper 4 ( Catholic Education Commission ) . |
| 7 | A proposed EC directive which would make financial institutions partly liable for damage caused by companies in which they have invested has been sharply criticized by several banking organizations . |
| 8 | Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements , overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions , so that the men who had died — my brother among them — had died quite needlessly . |
| 9 | In America , Motion Picture Herald declared , ‘ Crawford is attractive and has the only spark of personality in the film but his forte is slapstick , and he has been unattractively handled in several scenes by director Jean Negulesco . |
| 10 | The stunning technique , incidentally , has also been independently invented by several unrelated groups of fish , for example electric " eels " ( which are not true eels but whose shape is convergent on true eels ) and electric rays . |
| 11 | Both the science and history departments were tending towards RBL approaches in support of a developing middle-school syllabus , and the issue of study skills had been recently debated in several forums across the school . |
| 12 | The difference in recognition memory-test performance between subjects given these two forms of verbal pre-training has been amply confirmed in several other experiments ( e.g. Ellis , Bessemer , Devine and Tafton 1962 ; Ellis and Feuge , Long and Pegram 1964 ) . |