Preposition: of

• track: The album that followed became lost in the passing of time but is worth the purchase for several of the tracks.

• item: A new set of postcards, featuring several of the most visually impressive items in the exhibition, is in preparation.

Modifying Another Word

• probably: Soon you'll see a huge rock face on your left hand, which are probably several hundred meters high and very long.

• back: A little later, she slapped another student on the back several times with her hands.

• often: The villagers are usually aware of a clean water source, often several kilometers away, which has been running for many years.

• also: There are also several rods on the market built on our blanks, ask your local dealer.

• literally: They immediately went to the site and spent the next literally several days hoping to find survivors.

• here: I had to come here several years ago for physio following a serious bicycle accident.

Modifies a noun

• occasion: He said on several occasions " This place is really mad.

• month: The politics of the past several months have been full of interest.

• year: Several years ago, I enjoyed a charter trip to Guernsey in company with Allan.

• week: A renewal invoice is issued each year several weeks prior to the renewal date.

• hour: Where roads had been closed off cars were trapped for several hours.

• time: The regiment was employed in the Aid of Civil Power several times in the North of Ireland, from July to October.

Used with adjective complement

• include: A number of Caterham CSR 260s, including several from France, are expected to be making their seasonal debuts in the Masters.

• combine: The tools they operate include lathes, cutters, milling machines, grinders, borers and machines that combine several of these functions.

• represent: We're getting killed less than per who represent several.

• spend: Understandably, the church is not prepared to spend several hundred thousand pounds reinforcing these shortcomings, simply in the interests of history.

• see: All of them had seen a green fireball, some of them had seen several.

• have: We have several 24-7 prayer weeks, which were really exciting times, where people committed to praying in a specific prayer room.