Example sentences of "there [prep] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd have been there about a couple of weeks . |
| 2 | Just think of how many people will walk past and subconsciously absorb your band 's name on a sticker which is on a high street lamp post , even if it only stays there for a couple of days . |
| 3 | With all the RAF stations in England for him to be sent to , he had actually been sent to Bourn and was there for a couple of months . |
| 4 | Erm ironically I was one of those that went from Essex to Manchester and I did live up there for a couple of years but er decided to come back . |
| 5 | My mum and aunt are always saying to me , a white girl will first of all be engaged , then marry , then live in her mum 's house for a little while until they can afford the mortgage on their place , then buy a house , live there for a couple of years , then they 'll have the baby . |
| 6 | Anyway , I sat there for a couple of minutes and then the cab came . ’ |
| 7 | Erm if I could just stop there for a couple of minutes to er make a point about er independent taxation . |
| 8 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 9 | The er not a sore throat th you know , it 's there for a couple of days and then it kind of eases off , I think it 's getting better and then |
| 10 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |
| 11 | Well you lasted there for a couple of years . |
| 12 | I 'm not an expert — I 've only lived there for a couple of years . ’ |
| 13 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 14 | Leave it there for a couple of days . |
| 15 | I 've got some bits in there for her a few kittens in there for a couple of days I , so they 'd go up , pick them up and they get left |
| 16 | I know what you mean , your husband 's gon na miss you there for a couple of nights |
| 17 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 18 | I 'm only gon na put it there for a couple of minutes . |
| 19 | They went up there like a couple of out of a gun , when I opened the door ! |
| 20 | In August 1944 , having enlisted Chinese support , Ho crossed the border into north Vietnam to make contact once again with the Vietminh forces who , by this time , and in the absence of any other administrative control or military power , were extending their influence in the mountains of northern Tonkin in the area known as the Viet Bac Revolutionary armed forces were supposed to be growing and there was apparently enough revolutionary enthusiasm to support the idea of launching another insurrection from there within a couple of months . |
| 21 | Yeah , I 've got my band playing down there in a couple of weeks . |