Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charity runs a couple of hotels there with her husband Luiz Santana . |
| 2 | However there is still a section at the end of the footway and before the start of the flood bank where there are just two fences a couple of feet apart with nothing between them . |
| 3 | I should like to mention again that the recent excavations at this point removed 5–6 metres of tarmac surface and replaced this with two fences a couple of feet apart with nothing between them . |
| 4 | He finally stopped when he was just a couple of feet away from her . |
| 5 | Face turned on one arm , she risked a glance along the muscular length of the body stretched a couple of feet away from her , the briefest black trunks accentuating the dusky , even tan of his skin . |
| 6 | Any baby soother should be played at least a couple of feet away from her head . |
| 7 | I just put down Ex-Soldier and never did change it , even when he came in a couple of minutes later with his canvas bag over his shoulder . |
| 8 | The great majority live in Reykjavik or a couple of towns close to it , and that leaves the country wonderfully bare , especially in the centre — what remains of the population is concentrated on the coast , where the chief occupations of fishing and farming are best practised . |
| 9 | Eva sang and Margaret watched , filled with admiration for the sister who was only a couple of years ahead of her in age but light years away in confidence . |
| 10 | Then he snaked back through the house in silence , arriving at the front door just a couple of seconds ahead of her . |
| 11 | I was given a couple of interviews straight off which , though unsuccessful , were useful practice and I felt confident that something would soon turn up . |
| 12 | However it would appear that Hahnemann was a couple of centuries ahead of his time because it is now known that the DNA of certain viruses can incorporate itself into our own genome , our own inherited material . |
| 13 | ‘ We should have a rehearsal — you know , go up for a couple of days ahead of everyone else so we wo n't look like eejits . ’ |
| 14 | True , as we have already seen , John Patten tried to resuscitate the idea a couple of weeks later in his Lions address . |