Example sentences of "couple of year [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because we 've also been told we 're probably going to lose our jobs in a couple of years unless we 're prepared to move to Glasgow . |
| 2 | The food industry has been rather quiet for a couple of years but we have recently finished a Jaffa cake plant for McVities/United Biscuits in Manchester and a sugar refining job for Tate & Lyle . |
| 3 | Not only have Down and Donegal shown the way over the past couple of years but they have helped to generate tremendous interest in gaelic football . |
| 4 | Cos she 'd been wanting to do Aladdin for a couple of years but it was on at The Playhouse |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been a tough couple of years but I 've been relatively OK since earlier this year . |
| 6 | Yeah but the thing is , it 's something that we 've got to think for life really , or we 're just gon na be in the same situation in a couple of years that we wan na something a bit bigger . |
| 7 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 8 | The various pros and cons have been discussed and highlighted in the Journal over the last couple of years so I will not repeat them , although printing costs of the vouchers must be very high compared with a ‘ one off card ’ . |
| 9 | If not , he warned : ‘ It could be a couple of years before we even get into the courtroom itself and no-one can say how long the case will run . ’ |
| 10 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 11 | Clare and Southall a couple of years before she died , age 20 . |
| 12 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 13 | Barry had also composed the music for The Knack , and raised the idea for Billy with producer Peter Witt over lunch a couple of years before it materialized . |
| 14 | Erm I , I suppose it 'll be a couple of years before he does that but |
| 15 | Ooh now that started before we took out the mortgage , about a couple of years before I think . |
| 16 | Parents usually keep their children at home for a couple of years after they have completed their six years of compulsory education . |
| 17 | It needed to be , with a different corps every couple of years once they became officers and a new baby born every eighteen months or so . |
| 18 | By the time I moved in with Lucy and Joe , she 'd been divorced for a couple of years and her ex-husband had emigrated to America . |
| 19 | My ‘ old ’ boat was well known to the local seals , and they would allow a really close approach , but I have only had my present boat a couple of years and they are still suspicious . |
| 20 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 21 | When she had been there a couple of years and I asked her how she was , she said , ‘ Pretty mouldy . ’ |
| 22 | I ca n't of course foretell er what 's gon na happen in Eastern Europe , but looking externally er at the lower interest rates and the er more competitive value of the pound and internally at the improved cash flow and the actions that we 've been taking over for the past couple of years and I can say that there 's now generally a more optimistic feeling in the air amongst our group companies . |
| 23 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 24 | Usually , couple of years and you get , you get erm a promotion , but there 's nothing , and the , the jobs that are coming up they 're erm they 're already sort of la allocated to people been given promotion . |
| 25 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 26 | We 've done relatively well in the past couple of years because we 've had a lot of petrol pumps , because of the new , the opening of the big supermar the , the supermarkets where there 's thirty , forty pumps go going , we make a fair bit of money in that way . |
| 27 | The teachers gave me a rough time for a couple of years because my student and acting image did n't fit . |