Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 2 | Well , we sort of got together a couple of times — he was an interesting sort of man — done a lot of sailing , single-handed stuff . |
| 3 | One outgoing player is striker Derek Parker , who made only a couple of appearances after coming from Hyde United . |
| 4 | Most users would then have to wait only a couple of hours for a new telephone . |
| 5 | It needs only a couple of well-publicized mercy flights to the United States and appropriate patriotic breast-beating to ensure that liver transplant units spring up like desert flowers after the rain . |
| 6 | But those who bought the book from the human interest angle may have been disappointed because it contains only a couple of references to my condition . |
| 7 | We did win away a couple of times ( one was a 4–1 win at the high flying aston villa ! ) . |
| 8 | Then he stepped towards her to stand just a couple of feet away . |
| 9 | Allowing for the vagaries of memory , plus some very likely embellishing in the way Whitaker recounted the tale to his , then , fiancee , it is possible that the above tale contains just a couple of overt simplifications . |
| 10 | The people who lived here moved away a couple of years ago , so I was told . |
| 11 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 12 | We stopped briefly a couple of times , presumably for checkpoints and , as on other occasions , the driver would sometimes get out and speak to the people manning them . |
| 13 | Chang lived just a couple of doors along from me at Backyards , sharing a house with Barton Lynch , so we often ran into each other on the early morning surf check . |
| 14 | The two staircases that are situated just a couple of yards from each other are another curious remnant from the past . |
| 15 | The door creaked open a couple of inches . |
| 16 | The white-hot stream flowed down a crudely fashioned open conduit , passing only a couple of feet from Robyn 's toecaps . |
| 17 | I have made only a couple of minor claims over the period in question . |
| 18 | They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his . |
| 19 | My initial instinct is to move a couple of hundred yards or so but some of my most memorable catches have occurred when I have moved only a couple of swims further down the drain . |
| 20 | The couple had met just a couple of months ago and appeared completely devoted . |
| 21 | This is an organization that listeners may not realize , which meets probably a couple of times a term , and which members of the university and people outside community meet , have some supper together , perhaps , and actually hear some talks , either from people inside the university or outside , about topics of current interest . |
| 22 | So , although they start later , in fact ma mature sexually later , erm , than hinds do , just as human beings do , where of course males mature sexually a couple of years after females , their reproductive success can be vastly greater than any female . |
| 23 | Then he came again a couple of days after and took the baby . ’ |
| 24 | One minute they were pushing forward a couple of tentative singles on their own label ( The Far Out Recording Company ) , the next they were being pressganged by Polydor and trailed across the press following the release of their debut album , The Eight Legged Groove Machine . |
| 25 | His wife had died suddenly a couple of years back . |
| 26 | The season began in January in Brazil and prior to that he had had only a couple of rainy test-sessions at Silverstone . |
| 27 | Most surprisingly , as von Klitzing and his colleagues showed only a couple of years ago , the Hall resistance at each plateau , measured as the ratio of the Hall voltage to the longitudinal current , appears to be precisely a multiple of fundamental constants , h/Ne 2 , and is completely independent of all experimental parameters . |
| 28 | With the spring shows only a couple of months away , it would be impossible for me to appoint a replacement who could get a collection ready in time . ’ |
| 29 | So if you give away a tenth on the start , you 've given nearly half a second per run , and most competitions are either two , three or four runs , cumulative time , so , you know , if you give away a couple of tenths every time at the end of the day you 're going to be a second down . |
| 30 | But the insert cap had stuck to the outer cap of the bottle and had come off — so instead of adding just a couple of drops , half the contents of the bottle went in . |