Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the while long lines of lorries trundled along the streets as if it was 1945 and the retreating Wehrmacht only a couple of miles away . |
| 2 | Strombolian activity , then , is a bit noisier than Hawaiian , but it 's still not particularly dangerous — there are two villages on Stromboli only a couple of kilometres from the ever-active vent , and the inhabitants rarely have cause to worry about whether they will live to see the sun rise on another day , or on another boatload of visitors coming across to look at the volcano . |
| 3 | Most unfortunate , had been in action only a couple of hours . |
| 4 | Alina scrambled up alongside , and found herself a rock just a couple of feet lower than his own . |
| 5 | We got the telephone number of Ontos Uk Ltd , Richmond , Surrey wrong a couple of weeks ago , its +44 81 332 7245 . |
| 6 | As she had passed her driving test only a couple of months before , she was very cautious when the shiny new vehicle arrived , delivered on Christmas Eve . |
| 7 | It came to a halt just a couple of yards away , and her stomach gave an uncomfortable lurch as the door opened and Eleanor got out . |
| 8 | With her head down , concentrating on pushing the skis along and her mind happily listing the insults she 'd love to heap on his golden head , Shannon failed to notice that he 'd come to a halt just a couple of feet in front of her , till she cannoned straight into his solid bulk , her skis sliding neatly between his . |
| 9 | Optimism over the re-election prospects of the Conservative party , widespread among stockbrokers and fund managers only a couple of weeks ago , has ebbed away and there is now more active consideration of other possible outcomes . |
| 10 | What a way to return to the city I had lived in for ten too-long years and had left with but a rucksack on my back only a couple of months previously . |
| 11 | In due course the details of the recovery filtered back and we learned that the tern had been ringed as a fledgling in a colony in southern Sweden only a couple of weeks earlier . |
| 12 | I 'd knitted the back with no problems only a couple of days before . |
| 13 | But I remember something about Don Airey ( Colosseum , Bernie Marsden , Cozy Powell etc. ) playing keyboards in a band of that very name just a couple of years back . |
| 14 | Here we see the same pots just a couple of months apart . |
| 15 | How could he be so polite when he had been fired by passion only a couple of hours before ? |
| 16 | ‘ How come Ron Atkinson can go back to Sheffield Wednesday just a couple of months after leaving the club and yet I am banned from The Hawthorns ? ’ |
| 17 | Then he snaked back through the house in silence , arriving at the front door just a couple of seconds ahead of her . |
| 18 | I flew into the monastery by helicopter just a couple of days after the fire and it was still smouldering . |
| 19 | So she goes to bed early a couple of hours , |
| 20 | And why had Puddephat 's wife suddenly borrowed the keys to the flat in rue Roland only a couple of months before he was murdered there ? |
| 21 | ‘ My mother 's washing was discoloured and filthy after its rinse cycle just a couple of days ago , ’ she added . |
| 22 | Ask kind neighbours or friends if they can mow the lawn if you are intending being away a couple of weeks or more . |
| 23 | ‘ From your jacket pocket , ’ he returned mildly , moving his hand just a couple of inches clear of her grasp . |
| 24 | Ot Moor just a couple of miles east of Islip is a low-lying wilderness area of 6 square miles , mainly of wet marshlands , which proves to be a great attraction to naturalists . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't doubt it , Seb , you 've come a long way from the poor , sickly boy who arrived here from London only a couple of years ago . ’ |
| 26 | He won the Championship in September 1991 , but received his invitation only a couple of months ago . |
| 27 | Some way away a couple of humans were using some sort of machines to load boxes into a hole in the side of the plane . |
| 28 | ‘ I sang live on Australian TV just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 29 | I took Joyce there a couple of times . |
| 30 | It picked its way forward a couple of mincing steps , dragging behind it what looked like a gigantic bunch of dried up old herbs . |