Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Estimates ranged as high as a couple of hundred units having been sold in Japan . |
| 2 | The third of my wildlife gift ideas is a magnifying glass , or better still , one of the new battery-powered pocket microscopes , no bigger than a couple of fountain pens . |
| 3 | Some of these guns were on the top of the submarine pens , others were on concrete towers as large as a couple of houses but far more strongly built . |
| 4 | The small yellow tablets coated in sugar and containing nothing more stimulating than a couple of stiff cups of coffee became the most bitter pill that Bud Johnson ever swallowed . |
| 5 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 6 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
| 7 | The time-consuming nature of Janet 's part in the process , combined with a bad back which prevents her spending more than a couple of hours at the drawing board every day , means she can not keep up with her husband 's prolific output . |
| 8 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 9 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 10 | Even the biggest stars rarely sell 6m copies ( as Janet must do if Virgin is to make a profit ) for more than a couple of records . |
| 11 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 12 | The Colonel did not stop to reassure his wife , but rose neatly , pushed his chair under his table and with swift , disciplined steps reached the terrace no more than a couple of yards behind Miss Danziger . |
| 13 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 14 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 15 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 16 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 17 | Neither side had more than a couple of scoring chances in the first half , and Ecchinswell took advantage of the first of these , breaking through after dispossessing Martin Whiddett on the sideline and finding a vast opening in the Alton defence . |
| 18 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 19 | It will not say how many subscribers it has — only that it expects to sign up no more than a couple of dozen by the autumn . |
| 20 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 21 | Kelly liked the man but dreaded those rare occasions when their conversations lasted for more than a couple of sentences . |
| 22 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 23 | The tidal range in the Caribbean sea off the north coast of Panama is very modest — no more than a couple of feet . |
| 24 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 25 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 26 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 27 | Even those specimens collected from deep water seem to accept captive life in no more than a couple of feet of water quite happily . |
| 28 | Even an estate worth upwards of £100 a year might well consist of no more than a couple of manors plus an assortment of lesser parcels , all located in a single county . |
| 29 | The clips are short — no more than a couple of seconds each — but you can run them together using the editing program . |
| 30 | There are plenty of packages around for under £150 and they should n't take more than a couple of days to master . |