The phrase "a command of several" is not standard and may be confusing in written English.
It could be used in contexts discussing authority or control over multiple entities or subjects, but clarity is essential.
Example: "The manager had a command of several departments, ensuring smooth operations across the board."
Alternatives: "control over multiple" or "authority over several".
Groves and Vannevar Bush, the head of OSRD, selected the scientific staff, and appointed Samuel Goudsmit, a University of Michigan physicist with a good command of several Western European languages, as its head.
The corps served on the front lines for most of the conflict and took command of several combat divisions at a time.
Drake was a self-made man who took great pleasure in plundering the Spanish and living a life of freedom on the seas in command of several hundred souls who were usually nothing but numbers to him.
He was certainly a proud man, based on his own self-chosen motto, Sic Parvis Magna —"Thus great things from small things (come)." Drake was a self-made man who took great pleasure in plundering the Spanish and living a life of freedom on the seas in command of several hundred souls who were usually nothing but numbers to him.
In April , 2004 when he was in command of several thousand soldiers during an uprising in Iraq, he climbed into an armored vehicle to drive to meet with Iraqi leaders and with General James Conway, who was then the top Marine commander in Iraq.
With his bookish demeanour and command of several European languages, Mr Sapan is a fine advertisement for the rebels.
Eberbach succeeded General Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg in this post on July 3 , 1944 taking command of several panzer divisions, which were subsequently reorganized into Panzer Group Eberbach and then the Fifth Panzer Army.
European nannies with college educations and the command of several languages (mere bilingualism is passé) can earn as much as $120,000 a year on top of room and board.
