Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | This caused a delay of nine minutes , but play was able to restart for the last couple of overs . |
| 2 | Well , no what I 'm , what I 'm denying is I 'm questioning your assertion on what 's been happening in the last couple of weeks that we should react to that on a pa on er er report that has n't been released , right ? |
| 3 | Now contrary to what we 'd been informed erm the problem occurred over the last couple of days and having spoken to the ladies in the laboratory , the problem has n't been purely on line five machine . |
| 4 | See , I think we 're obliged to now say something about erm these general skills , I think in light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks |
| 5 | And certainly not in the light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks that 's |
| 6 | This is not going to disappear overnight , it 's going to affect her for a long time , and she 's never going to catch up on the work that she 's missed over the last couple of months by having seven teachers in six weeks . |
| 7 | similar to well the girl mentioned earlier on , that , since then I 've had within the last couple of years |
| 8 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 9 | Several RAF stations have closed in the last couple of weeks including Kemble , Abingdon , and Greenham Common In Berkshire . |
| 10 | It could have occurred in the last couple of days , within the Metropolitan police area . |
| 11 | Hey , do n't worry , we 've got really good at waiting over the last couple of days . |
| 12 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 13 | She hurried back down to put away the food already in the kitchen , and by the time Penry returned with the last couple of boxes she had a tea-tray waiting , complete with a plate of tempting cakes from the small bakery in Brides Haven . |
| 14 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 15 | Well of course there 's been the erm joining of the two Leagues back to where they should have been , you know this silly split that was erm arose over the last couple of years has been put to bed now and sorted out . |
| 16 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 17 | What TC said , most people have been saying for the last couple of seasons . |
| 18 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 19 | ‘ Just talk to them , find out what they 've seen and heard over the last couple of weeks , ’ the DI said . |
| 20 | Go for the last couple of lines whate whatever stage you 're at . |
| 21 | What had he meant about the last couple of lines of her notes ? |
| 22 | The port of La Sabina has been extended and modernised in the last couple of years and is home to many a fancy yacht . |
| 23 | We have traditional defences on , for example , diminished responsibility which allow murder to be reduced to manslaughter , or defences introduced in Acts that have been passed in the last couple of years . |
| 24 | A national conference in March 1980 , organised by the Women and Housing Group , attracted 200 women , and a women-only housing co-operative has started in the last couple of years to house its members . |
| 25 | ‘ With everything that has happened over the last couple of years , I just want to stand back a bit and have a couple of weeks to think about it ’ , he said , before later confirming his desire to lead a new-look Scotland in 1992 . |
| 26 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , folks , we may not have heard our favourite songbird sing for the last couple of weeks , but it 's certainly nice to know our very own Rory can still put on one hell of a floorshow ! ’ |
| 28 | However , it has not officially been published for the last couple of years and the figures shown for 1986/87 are unofficial ones culled from the published NHS annual accounts ( DHSS , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 30 | I have in the last couple of lectures erm outlined or tried to outline erm Locke 's basic decision erm his concept of how we as individuals are related to nature , to each other and I 've emphasised the crucial importance of this notion of how we are related to God . |