Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 2 | ‘ They made it official just a couple of days ago . ’ |
| 3 | Rather it suggests that intercourse was normal once a couple began to " keep company " and considered each other " promised " . |
| 4 | LEFT Home computers were unheard-of only a couple of decades ago ; now they have become routine magic' . |
| 5 | The company I worked for folded just a couple of weeks ago . ’ |
| 6 | Even so , I suspect that the visit of Pope next month would n't have been possible even a couple of decades ago . |
| 7 | This improvement became available only a couple of years ago in the shape of Gore-Tex booties . |
| 8 | In order to clarify the procedure we work the " general case " first and only then a couple of concrete examples . |
| 9 | You must have been rich then a couple of years ago ? |
| 10 | When IBM 's AT ( the 286 based computer ) was launched in late 1984 , it ran at 8MHz , but it was n't long before faster and faster oscillator speeds were used — a 25MHz 286 based machine was quite common only a couple of years ago . |