Example sentences of "couple of year [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Eva sang and Margaret watched , filled with admiration for the sister who was only a couple of years ahead of her in age but light years away in confidence . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Bodleian Library was asked to help with advice on how to save the volumes and the conservator of books there remembered an after-dinner conversation a couple of years ago with Dr Roger Angold , of RHM . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 7 | Roma wanted to buy Rune a couple of years ago for about £5 mill — but he said no ( ! ) , i guess he have all the money he will ever need … ) |
| 8 | The world 's biggest hookah was smoked in Amsterdam on Queen 's Day a couple of years ago by over 200 people simultaneously . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Brian Clough has already made an inquiry for the player he tried to sign a couple of years ago from Arsenal and , if Leeds go out of the European Cup tonight , a rapid departure could be on the cards . |
| 11 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | ‘ I got a gun pulled on me a couple of years ago in here . |
| 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 | He followed this up a couple of years later with Sophie 's Choice opposite Meryl Streep . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Support play has been poor these last couple of years everywhere except Australia . |
| 19 | That somebody else was Stanley Kubrick , the young director Kirk had worked with a couple of years earlier on Paths of Glory and a man whose greatest success ( 2001 : A Space Odyssey ) and biggest disaster ( Barry Lyndon ) were the result of his mammoth ego . |
| 20 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |