Example sentences of "couple of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But we missed a couple of fairways and he was n't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough .
2 For this I would most certainly cross oceans , let alone forgo a couple of treatments .
3 and there 's that on the floor , there 's a couple of loads there
4 He would feint and leave two or three opponents sprawling or plodding in his wake before he released the ball , unerringly , to either the flying Joe Hulme , who would not even have to pause in his flight , or the absolutely devastating Cliff ( ’ ’ Boy'' ) Bastin , who would take a couple of strides and whip the ball into the net .
5 ‘ He was nearly put out of the race when he ran into the back of Clifton Charlie who had broken a leg and yet he would have caught Lochsong in another couple of strides .
6 He caught up with her in a couple of strides .
7 She turned angrily back to the car , but Guy caught up with her in a couple of strides , catching her shoulders , spinning her back to face him .
8 He took a couple of strides towards her , and it was all she could do not to cower away .
9 He crossed the room in a couple of strides to sit on the bed beside her .
10 And goods wagons that needed to be unloaded , er would be brought into , er at least unloaded erm er perhaps for the distribution of items in the town , would be brought onto that turntable erm and normally horse , purely a horse hook would be er put on er and swung round , and the wagon , or the wagons , a couple of wagons perhaps , would be taken at right angles into that er goods shed for unloading .
11 I have to point out that my blaster has enough power for a couple of bursts , and if necessary I 'll use them .
12 free couple of vouchers for a new for a Corgi toy .
13 Couple of hearts , how exciting .
14 Everybody makes a big deal out of it now , because I 've done a couple of albums and you do all these guest sessions and stuff and it 's like ‘ Wow , he plays bass .
15 This line-up recorded a couple of albums and toured successfully in many countries .
16 He reached forward to turn off the gas poker and add a couple of peats to the fire .
17 An old chest of drawers , the only other furniture , was piled with an incongruous collection of objects , shirts still in their transparent packets , women 's underwear , silk scarves , tins of salmon , baked beans , soup , a packet of ham and one of tongue , three model kits for making boats , a couple of lipsticks , a box of model soldiers , three packets of cheap scent .
18 Their new wave cash-in does n't go any deeper than Jon Boy 's new perm , and , apart from the title track and a couple of nonentities , they retain all the circa ‘ 85 Cola and passion and AOR guitar wank moves even the metal fraternity despises them for .
19 The competition called for a first chapter of 2000 words to include a couple of phrases along the lines of ‘ the scent of freshly washed hair++ ’
20 A couple of musicians , that 's all .
21 ‘ A couple of adjectives to describe him ? ’
22 It comprised 20 professionals from SSDs , voluntary organisations , private sector , health sector and after much campaigning , a couple of users .
23 I turned to my typewriter and typed a couple of theses .
24 HP seems to have at least a couple of options : an immediate Thunderbird response , levelling the playing field with Sun right now — with ships in October — or a big splash in the Autumn , with immediate deliveries .
25 ‘ Since you 're a very beautiful woman ; we can immediately rule out the possibility that that no one 's ever been sufficiently attracted to you that they would attempt to storm your female bastions — which leaves another couple of options .
26 ‘ And stood outside the Tube station rattling a tin for the RNLI a couple of weekends ago .
27 Just just for a couple of weekends to see how many actual calls we do get .
28 And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time .
29 I went to Chichester with Joe a couple of weekends ago .
30 She had been invited to ‘ do ’ a couple of mornings a week for Racy .
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