Example sentences of "couple of [noun] ago [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I noticed a man wandering around the garden a couple of hours ago and asked him what he wanted . |
| 2 | Mrs Gray was more relaxed now than when she had received Theodora a couple of hours ago and Theodora gave herself up to the pleasure of walking through the church yard to the church door . |
| 3 | Take your time — I awakened a couple of hours ago and have already attended to my own needs . |
| 4 | ‘ I talked to him a couple of hours ago and he said that as soon as things quietened down he 'd get as much down on paper as he could remember . |
| 5 | A stand-off agreement was struck between the two parties a couple of years ago but observers say the recent death of Savoy president Sir Hugh Wontner may have triggered a fresh attack . |
| 6 | This was er reported on a couple of years ago but we 've heard nothing since , is there any action ? |
| 7 | Now that 's a modern version , again I made that for a couple of years ago but the tradition there was you knitted on hands and you ladies will probably know , four pins , no seams , all on the circular , right up to the neck and then the cast on the sleeve there and again , no seams . |
| 8 | She did slim down a couple of years ago but has piled on the pounds again . |
| 9 | Goran stayed two weeks at Elland Road a couple of years ago but did not make it — even though he scored a number of goals in his test matches . |
| 10 | BAe made apprentices completing their training redundant a couple of years ago but made every effort to find them alternative jobs . |
| 11 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 12 | I mean , she told me oh , a couple of years ago that she was eighty . |
| 13 | I know it 's a couple of years ago before he came here |
| 14 | For instance , in American factories ( I visited Peavey a couple of years ago and many , if not most of Yamaha 's processes apply there , too ) there 's a far higher proportion of musicians involved — people who know why guitars work and who are actively interested in the fact that they 're producing musical instruments and not simply ‘ product ’ . |
| 15 | To remind the assembly that this is a matter which was raised I think by Mr a couple of years ago and when a very similar motion was accepted by the Board er asking us to raise this matter with the the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Scotland , which we did er we know that there has been attention paid to this by the , the hierarchy . |
| 16 | ‘ Ratners thought this through a couple of years ago and then found itself locked into the game of pushing price to keep volumes moving and everything was put on the back burner , ’ says Richards . |
| 17 | I made them for a friend a couple of years ago and she 's still talking about them ! |
| 18 | There 's the one when he scores against Sheff Utd a couple of years ago and takes the piss out of Vineyard , and the one when he scored for Scotland and tried to get his leg over ( oo-er ) the advertising boards . |
| 19 | Because clearly in in debating this policy I think a number of the districts have also raised diff different points of interest in terms of what should be recognized as exceptional development and we we went down that that road a couple of years ago and unfortunately the districts came to the conclusion that it was n't appropriate to try and list the exceptional circumstances . |
| 20 | After all , she 's hit the headlines on numerous occasions , what with smashing up the inside of a taxi a couple of years ago and then being done for speeding twice in the space of about 15 minutes . |
| 21 | John Fullard wrongly received several similarly correctly addressed letters a couple of years ago and is concerned the dreary process is about to resume . |
| 22 | The foundation of the London Wildlife Trust a couple of years ago provided a focal point for all bodies involved in urban conservation , and the recent creation of the post of Chief Ecologist to the Greater London Council ( New Scientist , vol 95 , p 520 ) gives a point of contact within the city 's governing body . |
| 23 | Kissin , aged 18 , came to prominence a couple of years ago when he appeared to great acclaim at the Berlin Festival . |
| 24 | The Methodists first established a chapel for worship in 1828 , in a small building later converted into the Oddfellows Hall , and so named until a couple of years ago when it became a private residence . |
| 25 | His most touching moment came after Dreamflight a couple of years ago when he was asked to rush to the bedside of a leukaemia victim who wanted to see the photos of the trip that she had just enjoyed so much . |
| 26 | JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team . |
| 27 | The man who joined Lascubé in his early bath , hooker Vincent Moscato , has forsaken the rugby pitch to take up his other favourite pastime , boxing , just as he did a couple of years ago when suspended after being sent off in a club match . |
| 28 | It became redundant a couple of years ago when the Chipmunk glider tug it was providing spares for was replaced by a Piper Pawnee . |
| 29 | You no doubt heard about the raid on a Venezuelan freighter outside Amsterdam a couple of years ago when a gang impersonating the harbour police impounded over a million pounds worth of acapulco gold ? ’ |
| 30 | Turner nearly became Mr Big at Barnet a couple of years ago when he fronted a consortium negotiating to buy the club from chairman Stan Flash-man . |