Example sentences of "couple [prep] year [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His current offer would have seemed attractive to them a couple of years back , but not now . |
| 2 | A couple of years back I reviewed the Delmé Quartet 's standard encore disc on Hyperion . |
| 3 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 4 | And he started playing through some of the songs from my club repertoire , answering my enquiring look with , ‘ I worked with you a couple of years back , in East Dean Working Men 's Club . ’ |
| 5 | But I remember something about Don Airey ( Colosseum , Bernie Marsden , Cozy Powell etc. ) playing keyboards in a band of that very name just a couple of years back . |
| 6 | I went a couple of years back to the Coe political launch , the only political journalist among a bunch of ‘ 'ere Seb , woss this then ? ’ tabloid sports mackintoshes . |
| 7 | But desperate times call for desperate measures , and in response to post-Aids paranoia/homophobia , artists ( gay and non-gay ) have begun to use bodily fluids in their work , the best known being Andres Serrano , who , for a show a couple of years back , photographed his own ejaculations . |
| 8 | Certainly it appears so to Mario who 's given to saying things such as ‘ Yeah , I had a couple of years back then with Ferrari … |
| 9 | REGALIAN has yet to sell one of the 20 luxury flats in the block that infuriated close neighbour Prince Charles a couple of years back — even after slashing the combined price from £90m to £65m . |
| 10 | The band 's debut release , the ‘ Stoned Woman ’ album , out this month , serves as a summary of their achievements so far and a blueprint for future possibilities — in much the same way the Brand New Heavies ' debut did a couple of years back . |
| 11 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 12 | Remember the sensational flurry a couple of years back when we picked up word that IBM Corp was considering making an agreed offer for Apple Computer Inc ? |
| 13 | The Chinese prime minister , Li Peng , made a similar slip a couple of years back . |
| 14 | You know , and all old people 's things , like when they , when we old pensioners were being er , er knocked about on the erm highways and byways a couple of years back and I went to see the , the local police officer , what did he turn round and say , there all domestic affairs , they did n't want to know , yet the press will print , print these every week . |
| 15 | Their model 855 , a multi-bit design of a couple of years back , achieved something of a cult status and not only in the UK . |
| 16 | I remember when I was cycling through Normandy and along the Loire valley a couple of years back , I stopped at Chartres and went into the cathedral . |
| 17 | She even introduced a filing system a couple of years back . |
| 18 | ‘ Both her parents died a couple of years back , ’ said Mrs Molesworth in an aside to Betty . |
| 19 | John Sinclair has set up Loch Lomond Canoe School at Balmaha , venue for the National Sailing Championships a couple of years back . |
| 20 | Couple of years back , this was . |
| 21 | ‘ I was there very briefly a couple of years back . |
| 22 | He said he was n't when he came to see me a couple of years back . |
| 23 | They certainly were n't saying it about Lester Piggott on Royal Academy a couple of years back either . |
| 24 | His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back . |
| 25 | It is true that the hon. Lady said in column 687 a couple of years back on 15 March 1990 — that there was ’ no support among GPs ’ — |
| 26 | Just like the 2 small riots at Sheff Utd a couple of years back . |
| 27 | I have heard of the Hibs casuals though , they attacked a Manc baggy band called Paris Angels a couple of years back and left the singer with stitches . |
| 28 | ( Wilko signed a long long term contract a couple of years back . ) |
| 29 | The ex-Squeeze member is currently working on a new album but is unlikely to return with another series of BBCTV 's Juke Box Jury , revived with Holland in the David Jacobs presenter role a couple of years back . |
| 30 | The darlings of a couple of years back , Projects UK has fallen from grace or viability or both . |