1.   Although it increases cancer risk by just several fold, the numbers soon add up, making it a major cause of cancer.

2.   Are students indeed smarter than they were just several years ago?

3.   After all, my twin sister, Nancy, is a florist just several blocks from Janice.

4.   But Woerth said the union estimated that pilots could begin to be trained and armed in just several months.

5.   Flynn Kile sat beneath a white tent set up at Busch Stadium, just several feet from the mound where her husband, Darryl, pitched for the Cardinals.

6.   Growing heroin poppies is also increasing, experts say, though the poppies cover just several thousand acres.

7.   He was a player with modest gifts whose big-league career would last just several difficult seasons.

8.   I recall a person I met in what then still was East Germany just several weeks prior to the rejoining of the two Germanys.

9.   It numbered more than a thousand at its height but is now believed to have just several hundred members.

10.   Just several days before the draft, new coach Pete Carroll was discussing cornerbacks in general and said he favored long-armed defensive backs who can really run.