Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | New telephone numbers have been issued to all staff , but a few main enquiry numbers will be retained and calls on the old numbers will be transferred to the new building for the first couple of months . |
| 3 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 4 | It was arranged that I should have only a very small amount of money for the next couple of weeks That was the point : to pretend to be poverty-stricken , to see how we would manage . |
| 5 | One of the best authorities for the next couple of years of Burton 's life — back in the UK , waiting for the demob in various rural localities — is the actor Warren Mitchell . |
| 6 | Developments such as these were to occupy some of Newton 's successors for the next couple of centuries . |
| 7 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 8 | We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks . |
| 9 | Donna , satisfied that her sister was well , asked the hotel to get her a hire car for the next couple of days . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 12 | For many this is just costume dressing , but it points to a refinement of the relaxed creed now dominant in menswear , which is bound to filter through to high street shops in the next couple of seasons . |
| 13 | Erm whether it 'll be a sustained erm recovery is another question , but I think you can take the view that you know you will , you will get some mileage out of share performances in the next couple of years . |
| 14 | I wonder if I could offer you a cup of coffee in my department within the next couple of minutes ? ’ |
| 15 | And DEC says it 'll launch an Alpha-based Pixel Graphics subsystem in the next couple of months . |
| 16 | With performances over the next couple of seasons helping to decide which club gains promotion to the All-Ireland League set-up , it is vital that clubs get off to a good start . |
| 17 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |
| 18 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 19 | If nothing else , the relative lack of action over the last couple of nights would ensure a good sleep before setting off home . |
| 20 | Unless the new pitch is going to be pretty hard wearing , prospects for staging Euro 96 , and perhaps more importantly for playing good football over the next couple of seasons , do not look good ! ! |
| 21 | Are there going to be any more job losses over the next couple of years ? |
| 22 | The postulate will hold good , however , under the definitions of the last couple of paragraphs . |
| 23 | The Government fatally underestimate how very chastened many consumers are by the harsh experience of the last couple of years . |
| 24 | I 've spoken with the daughter on the telephone within the last couple of months , and each time our telephone conversations are exactly the same — the daughter 's at the end of her tether , she does n't know what to do . |
| 25 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
| 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 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the newsstands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 28 | But I expect to be back in Scotland within the next couple of weeks , so we can discuss whatever needs to be discussed then . |
| 29 | The seemingly inexorable march of new technology in the newspaper industry has taken on a new complexion over the last couple of weeks . |
| 30 | Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer . |