Example sentences of "the [num ord] couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few hundred hours of thought made me regret my bet ; but the second couple of thousand convinced me that I 'd played it right . |
| 2 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 3 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 4 | Normally I only Listened for the first couple of minutes at a reading ; either I am preoccupied by having to read later myself , or some image causes my mind to drift away ; but N'dosi had a powerful , hypnotic voice and his poetry sparkled with fresh , delightful metaphors . |
| 5 | I began confidently enough , with a humorous extract , but when the first couple of jokes went by with never a chuckle from the audience , I became nervous . |
| 6 | For the first couple of hours at least , the world of the BBC and ITN election studios seemed like something out of science fiction — with science and fiction in roughly equal measures . |
| 7 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 8 | The focal point of San Miguel was the swimming pool and , for the first couple of days , we were perfectly content to nurture our sun tans between cooling dips in the pool . |
| 9 | We birdied the first couple of holes and we were on top of the world . |
| 10 | For the first couple of days this was stirring stuff — until practical difficulties began to take their toll . |
| 11 | Although the first couple of fences are usually very straightforward , the horse must jump them correctly . |
| 12 | But there was also another Algiers , of which he caught , in the first couple of days , heady glimpses . |
| 13 | The greedier Koi will be sated after the first couple of meals , giving the more reticent fish a chance . |
| 14 | The first couple of days brought a continuous heavy blizzard . |
| 15 | I was living on adrenaline for the first couple of weeks . |
| 16 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |
| 17 | Little dabs of left brake counteracted the crosswind for the first couple of hundred yards , but above sixty knots the rudders became effective and she was easy to align just beside the centreline lights to spare us their jolting . |
| 18 | ‘ It will be mad for the first couple of months . |
| 19 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 20 | However a special helpline for patients , set up on 0204 390999 , received 100 calls in the first couple of hours . |
| 21 | I mean , I 'd had the feeling before , a bit , the first couple of times I went up on the End , it was that much closer to the spindle . |
| 22 | You 'll spend the first couple of hours with ‘ Power Missy ’ trying to work out whether it 's a tease or a threat and then , just when you decide you really ca n't decide whether they 're all Polly Harvey bolshie or Sundays pliant , it may dawn on you that ‘ PM ’ is , in fact , f—ing scary , like playing S&M games with a dangerous schizophrenic . |
| 23 | The first couple of songs are effective but so-so , the only real interest being the size of Matt 's guitar . |
| 24 | It had been laid out some fifty years before by one of those famous Scottish golfers who had dominated golf in the first couple of decades of the century . |
| 25 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |
| 26 | O K , but if you have n't shown your face at the window in the first couple of minutes I 'm coming in after you . ’ |
| 27 | Adjusting to the disjointed ordering of time is like trying to adjust to the idea of massing all one 's sleeping hours into the first couple of weeks of the month to have the remaining two weeks wide awake . |
| 28 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 29 | Fine for the first couple of weeks , but then there 's all that tedious paperwork . ’ |
| 30 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |