Example sentences of "[vb pp] a couple [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My bone marrow was harvested a couple of weeks ago and the whole thing was a piece of cake . |
| 2 | It was parked a couple of streets away . |
| 3 | We 're also committed to tenant participation and er we 've done a couple of exercises already on the scheme and we 've secured some funding from the housing corporation to employ Anglian Design on our behalf with the the housing association er , to involve the tenants as fully as possible in the er , development process . |
| 4 | They worked occasionally and acted and wrote their plays and read Jack Kerouac like Dean had done a couple of years earlier . |
| 5 | In an autobiographical account written a couple of years later , he described himself in having been " absolutely alone , of the most painful experiences and disappointments " ; and of his first response to " Schpenhauer 's masterpiece " he wrote that " in this book , in which every line cried out renunciation , denial and resignation , I saw a mirror in which I espied the whole world , life and my mind depicted in frightful grandeur " . |
| 6 | Local searches — a new motorway is a boon if sited a couple of miles away , but not right at the end of the road . |
| 7 | And this is a letter dated a couple of months ago , is it ? |
| 8 | The TV is on , the sound is low , it 's some not-half-cheeky detective rubbish starring George Segal that I 've seen a couple of times before , just the way I like it . |
| 9 | The station has broadcast a couple of times legally over the past year . |
| 10 | Er , I 've got a couple of brochures here , if you like to have a look at but do n't , please , take them away . |
| 11 | I can easily walk to do shopping and so on , but I 've got a couple of suitcases here now , and I certainly ca n't manage those . ’ |
| 12 | I thought well he 's got a couple of kids so he could do with a little girl . |
| 13 | In fact we 've had a couple of meetings recently Kevin with , with erm the employment office looking at , at their changing role |
| 14 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 15 | You 've given a couple of reference here |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The group as you are aware do have a vision statement , erm which has been published er and it was er developed a couple of years ago er great effort by the er management team . |
| 18 | The reasons that we need guidelines now is we had n't time to study them at the time and up to the present moment , as far as I 'm aware there 's one section that 's just been formed a couple of months ago . |
| 19 | He presents the stories of each community , first as they reacted to invasion and conquest , then as they were treated a couple of centuries later as white settlers took over their lands , and , finally , how the few surviving descendants of these once-proud people are faring today . |
| 20 | It would have been better placed a couple of weeks later ; at least the readers would have been familiar with the mood and pace of the album . |
| 21 | He was calling from the Lying-In Hospital ; the baby was born a couple of hours ago . |
| 22 | I was just going to say , I think what you say on full employment , erm , elsewhere they 're keeping wages and pay up is n't it , erm , and I 've known a couple in Telford again , that there 's work there , a new company it 's perfectly easy to take on all the good skilled labour they want , then they say they feel they 're very guilty because they 're poaching it from across the road , the British company has probably been two wages so that the jobs , it does mount up , so I do n't , I , I would like to know more about erm , what the low pay unit would really do to help us , and I look at this eight thousand two hundred and eighty pounds , and I think that would go an awful long way in the Mr Chairman , in helping to keep that going , which creates all the people who leave and get jobs , and good jobs , and get skills , and erm , I , I , it may be if there 's going to be a big budget , eight thousand pounds is not very much , but I , but when you think an individual project like that of course , any sort of traineeship , it 's a lot of money . |
| 23 | There are around 4,000 languages in the world today — 6,000 less than were spoken a couple of centuries ago . |
| 24 | There are around 4,000 languages in the world today — 6,000 less than were spoken a couple of centuries ago . |
| 25 | And he is no stranger to Rodney Parade , having spent a couple of seasons there from 1985 , moving from Newbridge , before flirting briefly with London Welsh . |
| 26 | The police , most of whom I knew , because of the great help they had given us when we had been burgled a couple of years earlier , said no , they did n't have the key , and in any case it was the council who must be approached . |
| 27 | And who , you might have asked a couple of days ago , is Whacker Eunice ? |
| 28 | ‘ We had a patient admitted a couple of hours ago , presenting with flu-like symptoms , but I 'm not happy about him . ’ |
| 29 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |
| 30 | The first two waves of paddlers in the Royal Grand Prix had passed a couple of minutes before . |