Example sentences of "[noun sg] a couple of [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It vanished from the boathouse a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 2 | through a snow a couple of weeks ago |
| 3 | I mean , if anyone saw that television programme a couple of weeks ago , about those prisoners who put on Guys and Dolls , |
| 4 | Of course , there was that er World in Action programme a couple of years ago was n't there , when the Tory MP from Newcastle , I think it was , went on the , on the dole for two or three week , but I |
| 5 | These kids would hang out in The Sombrero in Kensington High Street and Chagueramas in Covent Garden — which became The Roxy Club a couple of years later . |
| 6 | Now if you just press the return key a couple of times right , and have a lot of actual and fitted , if you go into option three in the data post depression menu you will notice that the fit of our model is very very different right , so we are now getting a very very good correspondence between actual and fitted , notice that in our original model the thing started to break down at about nineteen thirty , right , just by allowing the intercept to vary , right , over the wartime we 've now got a much better fit throughout the whole period why is that the case ? |
| 7 | Frear had entered the cafe a couple of minutes earlier and had recognized Schellenberg instantly . |
| 8 | ‘ We took a battering down there in the Autoglass Trophy a couple of weeks ago and we badly need to put things right . |
| 9 | I got a real complex a couple of years ago . |
| 10 | If I had gone into labour a couple of days earlier , I would have been on my own , down the block , with no nurse , nobody . |
| 11 | Still more alarmist about the flow of skills and knowledge into the IT industry from the country 's research base was a committee that reported to the Department of Industry a couple of months ago . |
| 12 | One of his old associates he had chatted to in the bar a couple of nights previously , had mentioned how much he enjoyed his regular visits to the Turkish baths in Gloucester . |
| 13 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 14 | Standing below the route in the sun a couple of days later . |
| 15 | Kissin , aged 18 , came to prominence a couple of years ago when he appeared to great acclaim at the Berlin Festival . |
| 16 | On the verge of bankruptcy a couple of years ago , Hannibal was rescued by an American company in a deal which left Boyd in charge as manager of the label . |
| 17 | ‘ That issue a couple of months ago was far too soft on transnational corporations ' involvement with the Latin American military . ’ |
| 18 | We got into a partnership with them to develop a small engine a couple of years ago , for their application . |
| 19 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 20 | Long jumper Yinka Idowu from Carterton who competes for the Oxford City club won her place in the team a couple of weeks ago when she won the British title at Sheffield … she only finished third in trials at the weekend but is still regarded as one of our best young athletes … |
| 21 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 22 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 23 | He wound up at Kemp 's place a couple of years ago . |
| 24 | I saw his brother in the Cock a couple of months ago . ’ |
| 25 | As I told you , when my friend enquired about a job a couple of weeks ago she was told there were no vacancies at all . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , Adrian did a modelling job a couple of weeks ago . |
| 27 | I remember making this point a couple of years ago , yeah I made this point last year and I showed these pictures , I spent about twenty minutes on it , the following week I was , I was libelously accused and it was a libel , it was a serious libel erm er that I , that I said that females always had to submit erm I was very angry about that . |
| 28 | Newbon disclosed that he told his former managing director a couple of years ago : ‘ I could get Oxford United very cheaply , ’ — but his boss was n't interested . |
| 29 | This was the first real chance of a score a couple of minutes earlier , Neil Smith attempting a drop goal . |
| 30 | I saw him in the forest a couple of days ago . |