Example sentences of "couple [prep] centuries ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained that a couple of centuries ago the course was leased out as a rabbit farm and , well , ever since , the creatures have been hopping wild across the four courses . |
| 2 | There are around 4,000 languages in the world today — 6,000 less than were spoken a couple of centuries ago . |
| 3 | There are around 4,000 languages in the world today — 6,000 less than were spoken a couple of centuries ago . |
| 4 | We did n't even know of the existence of electricity until a couple of centuries ago . |
| 5 | I suppose a couple of centuries ago most of the commercial production of energy , if you could call it that two centuries ago , was via windmills and perhaps watermills , but why do n't we go back to wind power ? |