Example sentences of "couple of year [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such figures make a mockery of talk during the past couple of years about the ‘ world economic recession ’ . |
| 2 | The Atari ST has dominated the 16-bit market over the last couple of years as a ‘ dual purpose ’ machine . |
| 3 | It is called Minitel and the French government had already ordered 600 000 of the things for a couple of years of an experimental run . |
| 4 | John now faces another couple of years of the same routine , as Reiver in 1994 and Left Hand Man the year after . |
| 5 | The most recent was in the early 1980s , during the first couple of years of the Thatcher government but that only lasted for 18 months . |
| 6 | ‘ Kenny Dalglish could buy them both in a week with the money I 've spent in a couple of years on a rebuilding job . |
| 7 | AFTER A couple of years on the indie circuit , Arista signed The Hollow Men , releasing their ‘ Cresta ’ album late last year , and it looked like these hard-working Leeds-based popsters were ready to step up a league and move on to a new , higher profile . |
| 8 | For a couple of years on the run they 've lost their dole cheque round about Christmas . |
| 9 | Today , with an irresistible single behind them , OCS may or may not stand on the threshold of a wonderfully fresh new scene : they have successfully meshed the musical phenomenon of the past couple of years with a sound of their heroes , The Beatles and the Stones . |
| 10 | ‘ The world has become very graphical , ’ says Mr Ingram. ‘ 1-2-3 has had graphical capabilities for a couple of years with the WYSIWYG capabilities . |
| 11 | Happily , and not unexpectedly , a couple of years amid the off-Broadway climes of the county stage seem to have had a mellowing effect . |
| 12 | A couple of years round the reps playing nervous idiots , then a television series , and now , entering his second year in Virgin on the Ridiculous , nauseating the critics and wowing the coach parties . |
| 13 | Now , a couple of years after a huge hit , ‘ Natural Thing ’ , they return to little acclaim . |
| 14 | ‘ He died a couple of years after the end of the project . ’ |
| 15 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
| 16 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 17 | Well I reckon she lived er a couple of years after the stroke Gordon . |
| 18 | The former holder of the world land speed rapping record ( 'til Curve 's mate JC001 half-inched it ) Freddy 's spent the last couple of years in the US working on his next LP . |
| 19 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 20 | They 'd had the stuff for a couple of years in the store and we were going to meet them there , at number twenty five Lilac Avenue , New Brighton . |
| 21 | I was married for a couple of years in the seventies . |
| 22 | It is a private restaurant opened a couple of years before the revolution by Christian and Marina Stolzenburg . |
| 23 | He only got started to work just about a couple of years before the war . |