Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 2 | Customers are no longer prepared to wait for several months for their chosen pattern . |
| 3 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 4 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 5 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 6 | Klein 's work developed through several stages , and the article considered here is representative of her later work ( Greenberg and Mitchell 1983 : . |
| 7 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 8 | Well we got through several toasters in a year . |
| 9 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 10 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 11 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |
| 12 | I applied for several and this one came up , that 's all , I did n't choose it particularly . ’ |
| 13 | When I was convalescing after that last virus , my Good Samaritans in Cotherstone arranged for me to have the Meals on Wheels service for several weeks . |
| 14 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 15 | During April and May the pilot arranged for several lessons with a microlight instructor using the instructor 's own aircraft ; completed in a total flight time of four hours , these flights covered mainly upper air handling with little practice in takeoffs and landings . |
| 16 | It can however be arranged for several bills within one household to be included on the same payment . |
| 17 | Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective . |
| 18 | Instructions are given for several neckbands , but everyone has their own pet neckband . |
| 19 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 20 | The other scandal is the doctrinaire attitude of Labour-controlled councils such as Plymouth city council which , when Labour took control in May this year , halted for several months the previous Conservative policy of selling land to housing associations at concessionary prices , enabling rents to be kept down and output to be increased . |
| 21 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 22 | If the general practitioner pronounces the patient fit enough , he may be able to start driving a car again , although he may need to retake a driving test if he has not been able to drive for several months . |
| 23 | So great was Rodrigo 's grief that he was almost paralysed for several weeks . |
| 24 | I lay for several days in a small wooden room , convinced for some reason that I was on an ocean-going ship . |
| 25 | Australian Cricket Board manager Graham Halbish said doctors had ordered Waugh not to bowl for several months after diagnosing a stress fracture of his lower back — a legacy of the recent Ashes tour of England . |
| 26 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 27 | Before they reached this happy state , however , they were to carry through several operations and long hours of dangerous training from their base at the Hayling Island Sailing Club on an isolated spit of land called Sandy Point on Hayling Island ( near Portsmouth , Hampshire ) . |
| 28 | If it gets into your eyes , you may be unable to see for several hours . |
| 29 | • In rodents , rhythms continue to develop in animals that have been reared for several generations in constant conditions . |
| 30 | Proportional hazards analysis was used to estimate relative risks adjusted for several covariates . |