Example sentences of "couple of [noun pl] [adv] [prep] [art] " 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 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 3 | After losing a couple of games early in the season , Yeovil are now unbeaten in nine outings , moving up to sixth place in the Conference , and disposed of Torquay 5-2 in the first round with the aid of a hat-trick from striker Paul Batty . |
| 4 | We 're also committed to tenant participation and er we 've done a couple of exercises already on the scheme and we 've secured some funding from the housing corporation to employ Anglian Design on our behalf with the the housing association er , to involve the tenants as fully as possible in the er , development process . |
| 5 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 6 | The station has broadcast a couple of times legally over the past year . |
| 7 | When he was a couple of streets away from the pensione Aldo tore up the letter into pieces as small as he could manage and dropped them in the gutter . |
| 8 | Bennett himself had a couple of chances late in the half , but the visitors also threatened as Alton 's defenders had to cope with the bright sun in their eyes . |
| 9 | Iro squandered a couple of chances close to the line at the start of the second half , but held on to Clark 's pass to make room for Edwards to score in the 50th minute , Phil Bancroft adding a touchline goal off the post . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We went through all this a couple of years ago with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys and at first I thought Matchbox must be deliberately creating a shortage to whip up demand . |
| 12 | Will the Minister reconsider the wisdom of the policy change introduced a couple of years ago by the Local Enterprise Development Unit to endorse and support market research and development , rather than providing direct grant aid for job creation ? |
| 13 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've been a sportsman all my life and after a couple of years away from the game on a daily basis , I 'm happy to be coming back . |
| 16 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | And er take a couple of steps away from the corner you could n't see your a thing , so we were more or less stuck where we where . |
| 19 | Yes , er he took a couple of steps away from the bed , er then I told him to lower himself down onto his knees and then eventually lower himself down onto his chest , down onto his front . |
| 20 | My initial instinct is to move a couple of hundred yards or so but some of my most memorable catches have occurred when I have moved only a couple of swims further down the drain . |
| 21 | He lived a couple of miles away in a cottage on a farm at Pilton , a cottage where he and my Dad were born . |
| 22 | A couple of miles further on the massive cylindrical cooling towers to Richborough Power Station emitted a faint breath of steam . |
| 23 | a couple of sessions purely on the actual , no public speaking that 's right , it was actually public speaking rather than |
| 24 | Even so , it was a couple of days more before the great host , now estimated at between fifty and sixty thousand men , set off southwards from the Burgh Muir of Edinburgh for Lauderdale and the Tweed . |
| 25 | a couple of nights later up the stairs , it was wild . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A COUPLE of weeks ago in the busy London evening rush hour I came across Britain 's hardest-working Royal travelling to another demanding job . |
| 28 | Yes , I mean that sort of action , of course they can take , and I think you 're referring to the letter that was in the article that Suzy Orbath wrote erm a couple of weeks ago in the Guardian . |
| 29 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 30 | Andy was re-admitted to hospital a couple of weeks later for the second operation . |