Example sentences of "'s [adv] a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Exactly on the hour , and if she 's only a couple of minutes late , you sing out , Bainbridge , because I shall want to know . ’ |
| 2 | Now there 's only a couple of fields left , and one cow for the house . |
| 3 | It was a leased car so it 's only a couple of years old . |
| 4 | I 'm Catherine Gray , I have nothing worth taking , there 's only a couple of pounds in my purse if that 's what you 're after . |
| 5 | for the benefit of these two , there 's only a couple of sentences |
| 6 | If you spread the group up and as far as you 're concerned there 's only a couple of guys looking at you and within the group more supportive than just one big body and if you 're feeling comfortable then the chances are you retain more information and part information to not just sat there . |
| 7 | It 's only a couple of hours , it gets easy |
| 8 | Yeah , it 's only a couple of quid . |
| 9 | Because there 's only a couple , they only had a couple of security guards did n't they ? |
| 10 | main road , there 's only a couple really and the , the air is a lot better because there 's lots of trees there and er , it 's , you know , if you ever feel bad I go there and I feel different within hours , you know , because the air 's so much better . |
| 11 | I wan na open it it 's only a couple of days after Christmas is n't it ? |
| 12 | No it 's only a couple of seconds . |
| 13 | Yeah well it 's only a couple of bloody pennies short of money |
| 14 | Mm , so it 's only a couple of months ' work really |
| 15 | There 's only a couple on there that you ca n't use . |
| 16 | The charity shop 's not really a proper shop — it ai n't smart or none of that , and there 's just a couple of old women sitting by an electric fire and helping out customers when they want to try on clothes and that . |
| 17 | Well , it 's every night but it 's just a couple of hours a night . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's just a couple of hundred yards further down the road . |
| 19 | Erm can we can you as part of the discussion , can you start off by saying well thank you very much for the call that you gave me last week but erm erm there 's there 's just a couple of sizes I 'd like to talk talk to you about . |
| 20 | There 's still a couple of beat up chairs there and I sit down in one of them . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's hardly a couple of inches of fat left on me . ’ |
| 22 | There 's also a couple of fields for additional notes . |
| 23 | As with the last 12-inch there 's also a couple of gems to be found on the flipside — the melancholy ‘ Blue ’ and a fraught , bastardised cover of ‘ Venus ’ . |
| 24 | As with the last 12-inch there 's also a couple of gems to be found on the flipside — the melancholy ‘ Blue ’ and a fraught , bastardised cover of ‘ Venus ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ Most weeks he 's out a couple of evenings — talking to Women 's Institutes , Old Cornwall Societies , that sort of thing . ’ |