Example sentences of "couple of [noun] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever its weaknesses , Switzerland always has a couple of aces up the sleeve . |
| 2 | That was at most a couple of miles up the road and no more than a few pence on the bus . |
| 3 | It merely broke his fall and carted him a couple of miles up the road . |
| 4 | A couple of miles up the road , a UDR patrol leaped out of a ditch and stopped us . |
| 5 | That 's for all the people a couple of miles up the road . |
| 6 | Another couple of miles up the valley and we are at Medbourne , the last bastion of the open fields in Leicestershire , enclosed in the year 1842 . |