Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [adv] in " 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 | Terence was Jessica 's cousin , who had come sniffing at the Cultra house a couple of times early in Karen 's visit . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was at this stage that there was an interruption , a quite noisy one as the Master of Dunbar put in a shouting appearance , three-year-old George , Agnes 's son , his nurse in full cry behind him , a couple of deer-hounds also in attendance . |
| 7 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 8 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 9 | so it is erm something of a step forward , erm we 've had material in the past which you may have seen which was recorded from the telly , a couple of years ago in nineteen ninety |
| 10 | ‘ I got a gun pulled on me a couple of years ago in here . |
| 11 | And he went into the main agent in Edinburgh and gave them an order for three of those , and of course , we did n't get them just right away because er probably we 'd have got the last one about a couple of years later in these days . |
| 12 | But his campaign for the relocation of 1,600 Ministry of Defence jobs ended a couple of months ago in failure . |
| 13 | He lived a couple of miles away in a cottage on a farm at Pilton , a cottage where he and my Dad were born . |
| 14 | By Thursday Bobby and Barbara are getting used to cycling to school and work a couple of miles away in Bicester . |
| 15 | There were a couple of people already in there , sitting at a table near the counter . |
| 16 | The promise and the fulfilment , let me just give you a couple of verses there in John fourteen , John make er , Jesus he makes this statement to his disciples , in John fourteen , in verses sixteen and seventeen , and I will ask the Father and he will give you another helper , another word for the Holy Spirit , that he may be with you forever . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | went to a craft afternoon a couple of weeks ago in Rye and er stump work is basically padded out embroidery |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | True , as we have already seen , John Patten tried to resuscitate the idea a couple of weeks later in his Lions address . |