Example sentences of "a couple [prep] [noun] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to know exactly what the company were aiming at or were attempting to say , but after a couple of scenes the audience found itself tussling with one question only . |
| 2 | Within a couple of hours the silence that had wrapped the sea in peace was changed for a distant roar-like thunder . |
| 3 | After a couple of hours the German lady and I were so choked with emotion that we were scarcely able to speak . |
| 4 | But the gusher could hardly raise a trickle , so within a couple of decades the council filled in its basin and planted some flowers . |
| 5 | It might have been that way for a while , Scum argued , but after a couple of weeks the Boroughs shitkickers moved in , and the game was up . |
| 6 | Take this turn and after a couple of miles the road narrows incredibly through the hedges and stone houses of the village . |
| 7 | Of course , within a couple of years the standards simply plummeted because they simply could not cope . |
| 8 | Though scarcely a couple of years the lieutenant 's senior , he somehow felt much older . |
| 9 | The local press and radio picked up the story and carried it week after week — for a couple of years the gay struggle was big news for the folks back home . |
| 10 | For a couple of years the low cliffs of unconsolidated coombe rock and brickearth were eroded at the rate of 3.5–6m ( 12–20 ft ) per year before they were boarded in and a new groyne system established . |
| 11 | After a couple of years the clump , will be looking a little shaggy so in March cut hard back to the developing basal shoots and feed as new growth develops . |
| 12 | In a couple of seasons the younger players in the side should have come on considerably and be contributing regularly — it is then players like Rocky would come into their own , providing the guidance and experience that people like Strach have been doing . |
| 13 | See I 've had a couple of colds the past few months and then you think , well that 's me , I 'm getting better . |
| 14 | After a couple of days the answer would come , abstrusely worried in non-rhyming hexameters : ‘ Fortunate is the man who honours his mother and keeps off animal fats . ’ |
| 15 | But in a couple of days the Big Bang goes up . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He gave me a couple of pills the size of tennis balls and told me to get my head down . |
| 17 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |