Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tordjman noted that 9% of business came from IBM AS/400 systems , up from nothing only a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | On a lighter note a fellow worker approached me only a couple of months ago er , the new European directive almost ruined his holiday he then explained he booked up to take his family to EuroDisney . |
| 3 | The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you . |
| 4 | We took about £150m out of them over a couple of years . ’ |
| 5 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 6 | The green alliance of the Green party and the Generation Ecologie , which only a couple of months ago was being credited with nearly 20 per cent of the vote , suffered a severe disappointment in seeing its projected score drop to 8.5 per cent — five less than its vote in last year 's regional elections . |
| 7 | He takes me aside a couple of times and begins in a soft Welsh lilt : ‘ I was thinking , now this might not be a good idea and tell me straight away if you do n't like it … ’ |
| 8 | Alternatively , it will cost you only a couple of stamps ( Ed 's note : Do please always enclose an SAE ) to write and ask me before you do something . |
| 9 | ‘ But I could knock you up a couple of poached eggs or a buck rarebit — how would that do ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'll wring you out a couple of tea bags . ’ |
| 11 | Well , just wrap me up a couple then and I 'll put . |
| 12 | Yeah , and he always writes me out a couple and I ai n't got the money . |
| 13 | Oh , sometimes it was irritating , even downright infuriating to look round and see him just a couple of paces away , but she only had to look into those dark eyes to feel that treacherous quiver of desire deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 14 | The car park was empty but for the elderly gentleman 's massive Ford , which was just crunching over the gravel towards the road , an old but impressive bronze Aston Martin which Charlotte supposed must belong to Gus — it sent him up a couple of notches in her regard — and the school bus , still stationary , boiling over with bored boys , and emitting a plaintive chorus of : ‘ Why are we waiting ? ’ |
| 15 | In fact I took her out a couple of times myself when I found that Angela was occupied with someone else . |
| 16 | Josie looked at her strangely a couple of times , and asked her if she felt ill . |
| 17 | After that I saw her maybe a couple of times . |
| 18 | ‘ He took my phone number and I met him again a couple of times . |
| 19 | He lured me there a couple of years ago to talk to his sixth form group about the Irish problem . |
| 20 | ‘ He said he 'd read it somewhere a couple of years ago , and it had struck him so deeply that he could n't shake it from his mind . |
| 21 | He had to press it down a couple of times to stop it falling over . |
| 22 | little shop here and they charge as much as you can and they get the grant to open the shop up and then they close it down a couple of months |
| 23 | They announced it just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 24 | giving it just a couple more minutes and if he does n't come |
| 25 | Sometimes the wood is pre-oiled , but if you buy one which has n't been , rub it over a couple of times with a rag soaked in linseed oil and leave it aside to dry . |
| 26 | Sometimes the wood is pre-oiled , but if you buy one which has n't been , rub it over a couple of times with a rag soaked in linseed oil and leave it aside to dry . |
| 27 | Once you think it is clean , rinse it again a couple of times to make absolutely sure , fill the basin with cold water and place one strand of seaweed in the basin at a time . |
| 28 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |