Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their purpose is to let you delete text safely or to move it around one document or between several . |
| 2 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 3 | There can be no doubt whatever about the validity of this method , and no doubt either that its description has been and remains a matter of controversy , or of several controversies . |
| 4 | Charlemagne and Louis the Pious and their counsellors had strengthened the authority of archbishops , and promoted regular meetings of councils of one province or of several provinces : trends that continued after 840 , and especially in the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 5 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 6 | SURVEY ( DEMOGRAPHIC ) — An inquiry that employs statistical data collecting and processing operations to provide information on a particular demographic subject ( e.g. fertility or human reproductive behaviour ) or on several topics ( multi-purpose survey ) . |
| 7 | Although blobspace can be located on any device or medium or across several , the field in a database record corresponding to a particular BLOB will always point to its location when interrogated by the database user . |
| 8 | Whether Diana 's interest in Birthright was planted by her obstetrician George Pinker , who was then its president , or by several of her friends who have had problems and become involved , her decision to add Birthright to her list of patronages marked a turning point in its history . |
| 9 | The 34 maps , supplemented by make-your-own-cards , can be used by one child as a test of skill , or by several competitively . |
| 10 | Habash was placed briefly in custody while in a Paris hospital to be questioned by an investigating magistrate about an arms and explosive cache found near Paris in 1986 and about several bombings and hijackings . |
| 11 | He started shaking if you said ‘ Hello ’ too loudly and for several hours after his punishment felt very hungry because he could n't hold a knife and fork long enough to get the food into his mouth . |
| 12 | The Damianis had bought the decrepit domed buildings from the Jaffa municipality and for several decades after the First World War the name of Damiani was proudly displayed in English and Arabic over the vaulted gateway where Turkish pashas once administered the law . |
| 13 | Rose was also a skilful card player , and for several years she was world champion at poker . |
| 14 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 15 | The news was a body blow and for several months the company was on a knife edge . |
| 16 | Instead , Anna 's limbs suddenly began to jerk alarmingly and for several seconds she thrashed her head from side to side until tiny bubbles of foam appeared on her lips . |
| 17 | Later , I felt there was a need to lay some foundations of understanding as to the doctrine of the church and for several months expounded Ephesians under the title : ‘ Build your church , Lord . ’ |
| 18 | Within a month of his return from London Gandhi found himself in prison , and for several years thereafter his bluffs were resolutely called . |
| 19 | And for several myopic , workaholic years I 've believed they were still white , have n't I ? |
| 20 | John Storey , two , was rushed to hospital critically ill with stomach and throat burns and for several days doctors fought to save his life . |
| 21 | Subsequently it increased again , and for several decades now the magnitude has hovered around 2.2 . |
| 22 | Detailed accounts of the development of the wings are available for the Exopterygote Pteronarcys ( Holdsworth , 1940 ; 1942 ) and for several Endopterygotes ( Kohler , 1932 ; Behrends , 1935 ; Hundertmark , 1935 ; Kuntze , 1935 ; Waddington , 1941 ; see also Clever , 1959 ) . |
| 23 | Workshops were established in Isfahan , Kashan and Tabriz , and for several decades Persia was the most important and influential centre of artistic excellence and learning in the East — comparable to Renaissance Italy in the West — whose most profound and abiding expression was to be found in the carpets it produced . |
| 24 | In addition , large numbers of drifter buoys were launched into the ocean off Peru and for several months they were tracked via the Argos satellite as they drifted with the surface currents . |
| 25 | In 1317 the communes in the valley forced the Benedictines to sign an agreement to share power and for several centuries thereafter local affairs were managed jointly by the abbey and by the ‘ Republic of Saint-Savin' . |
| 26 | Then he fell ill and for several months was unfit for any work : the cost of medicines , the increase in debts , his feebleness when , too early , he returned to work , combined to make him look , a man in the stable-yard had said , ‘ like a living skeletal ’ . |
| 27 | Table 9.9 shows the year-on-year percentage changes in the assessed GRE per head for each of the major classes of Local Authority and for several individual Authorities . |
| 28 | But in its pioneering way , and for several decades in the formative stage in the development of consumer culture , Butlins both represented and redefined core elements in working-class and mass leisure . |
| 29 | They reached the shelter of the brick-built cainca far enough ahead of their pursuers to lock themselves in , and for several minutes the coolies milled around the building , trying without success to smash the stout wooden doors and shutters . |
| 30 | During the night and for several hours after dawn the summit remains clearly visible , but as the plain warms up in the morning sun , the hot air rises and becomes vapour at a given height . |