Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] [adv] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I mean there was a classic case a couple of years ago of a lady who was pushing a baby in a pram across a zebra crossing and as she was half way across out of the corner of her eye she saw a truck thundering towards her which was quite clearly was n't going to stop and that you know a sort of fairly anxious situation , and she froze . |
| 3 | Then he snaked back through the house in silence , arriving at the front door just a couple of seconds ahead of her . |
| 4 | It was relatively mild and sunny when Jack teed off just after midday , in company with an Irish golfer who was a couple of places ahead of Jack in the Order of Merit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |