Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Several is used to refer to an imprecise number of people or things that is not large but is greater than two.
I had lived two doors away from this family for ~ years...
Several blue plastic boxes under the window were filled with record albums...
Several hundred students gathered on campus.
DET: DET pl-n
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Several is also a quantifier.
Several of the delays were caused by the new high-tech baggage system...
QUANT: QUANT of pl-n
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Several is also a pronoun.
No one drug will suit or work for everyone and sometimes ~ may have to be tried...
PRON