Sentence examples for several gears from inspiring English sources

Polydor signed them, and after five years of plugging away, they suddenly shifted up several gears.

He then stepped up several gears to emphasise his class and immense power.

Then, the hunt rounding on the investigators, Na remarkably shows that he's been keeping several gears in reserve.

It offers the latest functions: skipping past several gears — say, from sixth to third — when you floor the accelerator, or detecting grades to avoid busy shifting on hills.

For one thing, the five-speed automatic attached to the 4-cylinder engine hiccupped momentarily when asked to downshift by several gears.

Madrid changed up several gears and Di Stéfano ran the rest of the match while scoring three goals, Puskas getting the other four.

There are two main supermarkets and several gear shops.

If the shafts must be parallel, it may be necessary to use several gear pairs in series (a train) to obtain a large ratio.

The company is one of several gearing to battle it out for a piece of the next-generation cellular handset market.

To help learn about ratios, students might be presented with several Lego gears and be asked to determine how many times the large gear must be turned for smaller gears to turn once, twice and so forth.

The record has several marked gear shifts, allowed by the double album format.