Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |
| 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 | In 1979 I had built a small wind-up lectern for table-top use and followed that a couple of years later with a full-size floor-standing lectern that operates hydraulically . |
| 4 | Yes , we realise this is Guitarist and not Woodglue Sniffers ' Weekly , but things are hotting up ; it seems our remarks a couple of months ago concerning a certain brand of custom-built guitar storage cabinet have not gone unnoticed by a rival chippie down in Eastbourne … |
| 5 | He lived a couple of miles away in a cottage on a farm at Pilton , a cottage where he and my Dad were born . |
| 6 | Japan 's annual Unix Fair was held a couple of weeks ago at a new venue in Yokohama , attracting 89 exhibitors and 37,000 visitors . |