Example sentences of "couple [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 , 62% of married couples of working age were both in work . |
| 2 | There was also a group of male students ; three soldiers on their way to have some specialist medical treatment , and a number of older couples of peasant stock who were probably visiting their well-to-do offspring in Paris . |
| 3 | DJ Simon Wedgewood coaxed six student couples from Cardiff University under the spotlight and , in a variation of Blind Man 's Bluff , persuaded the men to take off their shirts which were put in a heap on the dancefloor . |
| 4 | Recently Joe and his wife Janet have been involved in support for couples in frontier work . |
| 5 | Statements from couples concerning family size and childbearing often have a strong normative or quasi-religious quality stressing niceness , decency , responsibility , and so on ( Busfield and Paddon 1977 , Askham 1975 ) . |
| 6 | Have you ever been tempted to put a couple of booby trap techniques in there on purpose , just to screw up the poor guy transcribing it ? |
| 7 | ‘ Nicola told me she 'd found out about a couple of drug smuggling operations in this country run by the Mafia . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 9 | The same lithe figure , except that Tessa had a couple of inches advantage in height and a slightly fuller body . |
| 10 | Go for a couple of shades lighter — medium warm brown , for example , or dark blonde ( sometimes known as light brown ) . |
| 11 | I guess I was trying to earn a couple of lowlife brownie points , so I could catch up with Steve and Paul 's criminal pedigree . |
| 12 | I have indulged myself in a sentimental browse through the Gongsters , replete with the customary reports of student apathy and financial hardship , and deplored the style of the couple of rugby match reports I contributed . |
| 13 | Erm moving on and talking about the subject of the Gascoigne Wood pits or the er proposed tip at the Gascoigne Wood pits in just a couple of moments time . |
| 14 | Lowell parked the van just off Queens Road , within a couple of minutes walk of the City Museum and Art Gallery . |
| 15 | Also in the pipeline are a couple of Service Quality Development videos on counter courtesy and telephone techniques . |
| 16 | Helped by a couple of purchases north of the Border , the chain has grown from 130 at the beginning of 1992 to 209 now , with operating profits leaping from just £700,000 in 1991 to £4.9 million last year . |
| 17 | Clearly no one person could get round five parishes , control five PCCs , prop up the fabric of five buildings , look to a couple of church school governing bodies , visit , bury and comfort the sick , dead and bereaved , let alone baptise , prepare for confirmation and marry five sets of parishioners and at the same time keep up a life of prayer . |
| 18 | After a couple of hours rest , it runs off into the bush to find food for itself , and after only twenty-four hours it is able to fly . |
| 19 | It 's so hard to work on full glow when you 've only had a couple of hours kip . |
| 20 | So we 'd go and work a couple of hours overtime or all night the scrap iron . |
| 21 | After school there would be games , Guides , all kinds of activities , and a couple of hours homework to supervise . |
| 22 | It always seemed a waste to use up a couple of Gold Flake this way , but I always forget to buy cheaper cigarettes and anyway , the corner tabs on the cardboard packets make excellent roaches . |
| 23 | A junior with a big interest in meeting people [ according to his Appraisal ] was given the task of setting out packs of account opening cards , Special Savings forms and passbooks and a couple of credit card application forms for good measure . |
| 24 | Gloria Estefan at the moment , so I thought I 'd just get him the got a couple of records LP 's or whatever you call them now . |
| 25 | . got a couple of Oak tree 's , there in the corner you 've got , cos our fence you 've got that , my house is there right , road down like that and you 've got a fencing , it goes like that and with got trees all around it . |
| 26 | Diffused lighting cast a warm amber glow over a couple of oak display cabinets and reflected off the glass-panelled walls . |
| 27 | I said to Rob I said well I 'm a couple of pounds lighter . |
| 28 | Criminal plaints were sometimes filed against the thieves in order to reduce the amount of ransom , or to get a couple of rupees compensation for an eaten animal . |
| 29 | ‘ Other attractions will include a fairground organ , a miniature steam railway and a couple of scale traction engines . |
| 30 | These are situated a couple of kilometres south of Matlock and are reached by turning east off the A6 just south of the junction with the A5012 . |