Example sentences of "[been] [art] couple of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 2 | While they had been talking , there had been a couple of moments when he had n't looked in the least civilised ! |
| 3 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 4 | My wife 's been a couple of times si since then but not me . |
| 5 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 6 | I mean there 's been a couple of times that he 's really lost his temper with her and erm and , and really flown off the handle , badly . |
| 7 | Oh yeah she 's been a couple of times to see if I 'd swap . |
| 8 | He has been a couple of times . |
| 9 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 10 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 11 | And say erm where he would be best used but there have been a couple of errors caused by his bad eyesight . |
| 12 | And erm you know , I I 've had on occasion , when there have been a couple of people in our flat , we had n't either done or said anything . |
| 13 | As a result of the improved revaluation changes , explained earlier , this option could be considerably more attractive than it would have been a couple of years ago . |
| 14 | No cosy warm Italian family life for him , he told Anna , school , university , crammers , lodgings , his happiest time had been a couple of years recovering from pneumonia with an uncle , the British padre , on the Ligurian coast . |
| 15 | It has been a couple of years since master fly-tyer Pat Mulholland held court on the Wellington College campus , but I can tell you that if fly-tying is what you want to learn , then this will be the best £26 you ever invested . |
| 16 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 17 | At the time of writing , the situation had become a lot calmer , though it had only been a couple of weeks since Stan received his first injection . |
| 18 | We had problems that last year with bits of this assignment until the mailing went out and then , you know , the video cassette , the specimen cassette was available but perhaps if it had been a couple of weeks earlier it would have been better . |
| 19 | There have been a couple of announcements in the past few months which should be of interest to us . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's quick , Mrs Goodbody , ’ said Annie , ‘ it 's only been a couple of days . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's only been a couple of days , ’ said Joe . |
| 22 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 23 | Miss Barber said the inquest had been a couple of days before . |
| 24 | Miss Barber said the inquest had been a couple of days before . |