Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of minutes later a soft glow appeared in the cellar doorway . |
| 2 | A couple of hours later the same Burnmouth boat which had brought the Marischal in picked its secret way out of Berwick harbour , with the three knights as passengers . |
| 3 | By 1953 , the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location : the working-class boys and girls who , congregating around various London centres , had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style , the Edwardian Look . |
| 4 | Within a couple of years only a few hundred of them survived . |
| 5 | Geoffrey Smith of Windrush tells me that copies of the Windrush Island Guide to Northern Cyprus , until a couple of months ago the only in-depth guide to that part of the island , have been defaced in a number of London bookshops . |
| 6 | Couple of days later a little note comes in the post saying that you 've just paid the National West National Bank Bank of Scotland twenty three pounds thirty and it 's absolutely brilliant ! |
| 7 | He decided to stop over in Paris and spend a couple of days following a similar route . |
| 8 | A couple of weeks ago a dear sister was helping a sick brother in our fellowship , by doing his washing . |
| 9 | ‘ 'Then some asshole of a journalist printed a story that he was still working for the Company and a couple of weeks later the Red Brigade snatched both of them . |