Example sentences of "of [noun sg] a couple " in BNC.

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1 I 've seen him outside of football a couple of times — but it just shows there are no friends in the game . ’
2 Still more alarmist about the flow of skills and knowledge into the IT industry from the country 's research base was a committee that reported to the Department of Industry a couple of months ago .
3 er which we stop for er we probably have a cup of tea a couple of times on the way down
4 On the verge of bankruptcy a couple of years ago , Hannibal was rescued by an American company in a deal which left Boyd in charge as manager of the label .
5 The company launched PowerHouse for the AS/400 in a blaze of publicity a couple of years ago , but has encountered problems that will be familiar to many software companies attempting to break into this market .
6 I say publicly that they are mistaken in trying to push this Bill through in the face of severe and fierce opposition , not just from committed Labour supporters but from rank-and-file Conservatives and from people who have no particular political We were lucky enough to see my hon. Friend the Minister of State a couple of times , and we tried to explain to him how we in Leicestershire would lose out .
7 The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago .
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