Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | The celebrated intermittent lake of Cerknica covers an area of 28.4 sq km ( 11 sq miles ) and persists for several months . |
| 2 | ‘ But in adults it 's like a flu that lingers for several weeks . |
| 3 | What hope there is resides primarily in the same section of the news-stands as it has for several years — the ‘ serious ’ and ‘ specialist ’ music press . |
| 4 | But one of these , the Manas ( ‘ by far the most important wildlife reserve in the Indian subcontinent ’ — IUCN Pig and Peccaries Specialist Group ) , has for several years been in the hands of armed rebels . |
| 5 | ‘ And the TCCB 's directive for pitches has for several years now been that they must start dry . ’ |
| 6 | An energy source which could potentially supply up to ten times our energy needs for several thousand years is called an indefinitely sustainable energy source . |
| 7 | Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] writes of several occasions when he met friends and had news of Herringman 's authors there . |
| 8 | Embarrassed , Mrs Frizzell turned hastily to the back , where rave notices from several New York papers greeted her . |
| 9 | Together with the first harvest sheaf hanging beside the icon for its protective magic , these are reminders that our peasant lives in several cultural times simultaneously , one of them embedded deep in the pagan past , another in the religious present , a third focused on the trip she is about to take to the town of Roslavl' . |
| 10 | The climb starts from Several Species etc , moves right onto the overhang , passes a chockstone and continues to a pod , then follows a groove to the final roof . |
| 11 | One gentleman , who has not actually seen the apparition , has on several occasions heard footsteps walking up a stairway in the station . |
| 12 | Insensitive and often racist policing have fused with inner urban decay to create a climate of both despair and rebellion in which black ( and white ) youth 's sense of injustice has on several occasions provoked urban revolt ( Benyon , 1984 ; West Midlands County Council , 1986 ; Gifford , 1986 ) . |
| 13 | From its Midlands grassroots in the Clean-up TV Campaign , the NVALA has grown into an organisation with over 30,000 members , and has on several occasions organised nationwide petitions which have secured a formidable number of signatures . |
| 14 | More important , it has on several occasions presented to the European Commission solutions to technical problems with the Directives which have had the unanimous support of member associations . |
| 15 | The UGT has on several occasions accused the CCOO of calling politically motivated strikes , aimed at disrupting the government 's economic policy . |
| 16 | Walmsley looks at several possible explanations and concludes that the change is largely due to the Act itself , firstly in the simple sense that the passing of the 1967 Act brought to an end a trial period of uncertainty for the police by making quite clear that , although in the future homosexual acts in private between consenting adults were to be legal , such acts in ‘ public ’ as defined by the Act were not . |
| 17 | From Holt Fleet the Way crosses the parkland of Ombersley Court and passes through the village of Ombersley and across Westwood Park to the town of Droitwich the route continues along the Roman Salt Way and goes through a variety of farms , follows a canal and passes through several small villages . |
| 18 | With all the ingredients in hand , a regular slot on the weekly network schedule is assigned , and the entire cast meets for several hours ' ’ wood-shed ’ rehearsal where the individual numbers are whittled into shape for the performance . |
| 19 | This occurs via several chemical pathways ; either by direct strand cleavage or by liberation of free bases generating alkali labile sites [ 5-7 ] . |
| 20 | The circular motif in pure colour predominates in several , recalling Sonia Delaunay 's use of circular forms of bright colours to deal with a number of similar themes , including the ‘ Bal Bullier ’ and the ‘ Market at Minho ’ around the years 19135 . |
| 21 | Furthermore , P-ANCA/GS-ANA , which occures in several primary vasculitis diseases , can frequently be demonstrated in inflammatory bowel disease and primary sclerosing cholangitis also . |
| 22 | The NBC suit is definitely not designed for wear in hot climates ; the outcome of this episode is an attack by Belgian F-16s , Which results in several simulated casualties . |
| 23 | The rate of development of spadefoot tadpoles depends upon several factors , including water temperature and the number of other tadpoles around . |
| 24 | The same figure occurs in several places in a textbook . |
| 25 | There is a very high incidence of alcoholism in families where incest occurs but it also appears that child molestation occurs in several generations in some families even when there is no other obvious sign of addictive disease . |
| 26 | Flagelliflory , the presentation of flowers on long peduncles , occurs in several unrelated groups and is generally associated with bat pollination , but a whole family of plants in a wide range of habitats in tropical America has all its species bat-pollinated with the flowers projecting above the canopy ; namely the Caryocaraceae . |
| 27 | It occurs in several dipterocarps ( see later ) and also some Garcinia spp . |
| 28 | It arrives on several disks , in a box covered with glossy pictures and explanations ( sometimes exaggerations ) about its capabilities . |
| 29 | Whether they can increase production at a rate which allows urban markets to be fed and exports to be maintained depends on several factors . |
| 30 | The actual point of this transition depends on several factors and it is this change of response which takes some getting used to , particularly for those with lots of fixed-wing experience . |