Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs . |
| 2 | We tried the next couple of villages also before the truth dawned . |
| 3 | We ca n't go round sacking our leaders every couple of years just because the voters do n't like them , can we ? |
| 4 | Now that 's a modern version , again I made that for a couple of years ago but the tradition there was you knitted on hands and you ladies will probably know , four pins , no seams , all on the circular , right up to the neck and then the cast on the sleeve there and again , no seams . |
| 5 | It became redundant a couple of years ago when the Chipmunk glider tug it was providing spares for was replaced by a Piper Pawnee . |
| 6 | We managed perfectly alright a couple of years ago when the buses did n't come up here , we could manage now . ’ |
| 7 | although it will be a couple of years yet before the pre-loss level of dividend can be resumed . |
| 8 | Siemens AG has now acknowledged that it is looking for a strategic partner for its troubled Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , which is facing growing woes over the next couple of years now that the German economy is plunging into what threatens to be deep recession . |
| 9 | CELL , FROM Hoboken , New Jersey , slung a 45 out on Thurston Moore 's Ecstatic Peace ! label a couple of months ago and the word on the street was that here comes the New Nirvs ! |
| 10 | ‘ I ran a couple of passengers there before the dickheads bought the island . |
| 11 | Not the Monday a couple of days ago but the one before . |
| 12 | My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake . |
| 13 | Other knitters with this machine might like to take the precaution of buying a couple of clamps so that the same thing can not happen to them . |