Example sentences of "[art] couple [prep] year [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ca n't go round sacking our leaders every couple of years just because the voters do n't like them , can we ? |
| 2 | We stayed in that house till I were eight year old and then we were went on to where I lived the rest of my time and that would have been from nineteen twenty to oh a couple of year ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the short term he sees NT very much as a client system , with take-up by the server community a couple of years away . |
| 5 | ‘ But I would n't mind taking a couple of years just sitting round the house and reading , ’ the 43-year-old actor , who is married to Cindy Crawford , told Oprah Winfrey on American TV yesterday . |
| 6 | One more story about O : he told me ( it was as if he was trying to explain the oddity of his lovemaking to me , as if he was trying to account for or apologise for the way he 'd treated me , or perhaps to reassure me concerning the effect he 'd had on me , I do n't know ) , in the morning he told me that there was one man , this had been just a couple of years previously , there was one man who had summoned him to his bedside to be counted amongst a farewell gathering of lovers , dear friends and great passions . |
| 7 | He was agreeably surprised to find one from a friend who had joined the Mounties a couple of years previously . |
| 8 | Only the queen of the social columns , recruited a couple of years previously from Calgary , sat calmly at her desk , her silver-tipped fingers delicately feeling the pulse of the city 's social life . |
| 9 | By 1953 , the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location : the working-class boys and girls who , congregating around various London centres , had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style , the Edwardian Look . |
| 10 | A couple of years previously a letter had been sent to Keswick suggesting as much . |
| 11 | ‘ There were problems in the past with the way the fund was run , but when I took over a couple of years ago we took a very long look at our accounting system and put matters right . |
| 12 | A COUPLE of years ago , a rumour swept Oxford that the National Front was to have a stall at the Freshers ' Fair . |
| 13 | Kissin , aged 18 , came to prominence a couple of years ago when he appeared to great acclaim at the Berlin Festival . |
| 14 | If the girls do not appear to have an even average awareness of culture — a friend said that a couple of years ago Zsuzsa had never heard of |
| 15 | A lengthy illness prevented her from appearing on Alice Faye 's ‘ This Is Your Life ’ tribute a couple of years ago . |
| 16 | This is equivalent to five days ' trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange , 2.5 times more than a couple of years ago . |
| 17 | A couple of years ago this would have sounded like fiction ; soon it may be fact . |
| 18 | Dead lucky you were getting in free to see the Olympic Games a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I went for the Enterprise Allowance a couple of years ago , ’ says London graphic designer Trevor Jackson , 22 . |
| 20 | I read it to you in bed , a couple of years ago , or maybe longer . |
| 21 | A couple of years ago he wrote to several of our authors saying that he was dying , their work meant a lot to him , could they write something for him . |
| 22 | I suspect he would have been rewarded by now had a private conversation of his on a car telephone not been picked up and leaked a couple of years ago . |
| 23 | A couple of years ago this kind of scenario seemed plausible to thousands of people who committed themselves to self-build co-operatives . |
| 24 | On the verge of bankruptcy a couple of years ago , Hannibal was rescued by an American company in a deal which left Boyd in charge as manager of the label . |
| 25 | Did n't I take that photograph in the street for you , a couple of years ago ? ’ |
| 26 | His latest personal explorative project began a couple of years ago . |
| 27 | I remember a couple of years ago , Curtis Strange asking Arnold when he considered was the best he ever played . |
| 28 | Up until a couple of years ago his name had been Peter Manstead . |
| 29 | CALLAHAN : A couple of years ago , Potter was the hottest guy on the North Shore . |
| 30 | During a flying visit to London a couple of years ago , Lovins was heard to declare that his wife 's next project was ‘ to translate Soft Energy Paths into English ’ . |