Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We will be back in the summer for perhaps a couple of days when we have got the bigger picture and can ask more intelligent questions , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Back here , his chance at Edgbaston , where last season he was selected for only a couple of first-class fixtures , came because Dermot Reeve was injured . |
| 3 | The dividing wall holding this tank only attracts sunlight from one side and for only a couple of hours a day , and only at the height of summer . |
| 4 | This sweet-tasting , open-textured meat with its fine , white fat needs to be hung for only a couple of days , so it remains quite pink . |
| 5 | The fuel would have been sufficient to keep the boat going for only a couple of hours , he added . |
| 6 | She headed off upstream , and discovered a fair-sized pool after only a couple of minutes ' walk . |
| 7 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 8 | After just a couple of minutes when the spray had dried , we brushed out the curls into these beautifully smooth , sculpted waves . |
| 9 | The WRVS are also looking for additional meals on wheels drivers , for just a couple of hours once or twice a month . |
| 10 | When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake , he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths . |
| 11 | They were kept waiting for just a couple of minutes — ‘ While Mr Magill completes a call ’ in a cool-warm windowless reception area soundproofed so that even the loudest complaint about a bill would come out as a hushed croak then ushered through into an office that was almost straight from Charles Dickens . |
| 12 | It may stress the past as different and difficult to know , an important corrective to those who claim to discover the past ‘ speaking ’ on the basis of only a couple of selected voices . |
| 13 | Not particularly tough , I ventured , when last year in court cases arising from pollution at ICI sites on the Tees and Mersey , guilty verdicts led to fines of only a couple of thousand pounds in each case : ICI could find that from petty cash . |
| 14 | MicroMuse Ltd , the Putney , London-based Sparcsystems builder turned systems integrator , is one of just a couple of UK firms distributing SunConnect 's SunNet Manager to other resellers and system integrators . |
| 15 | sort of well a couple of nights deejaying will do me for a start really . |
| 16 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ We have dominated our last two games and come out with only a couple of points . |
| 18 | ‘ In some cases managers are stuck in the middle of supporters with only a couple of inches of space between them , ’ said chief executive John Camkin . |
| 19 | The fact that the Ceauşescus had countless colour televisions added to the perverse aspect of their superabundance since ordinary Romanians had to put up with only a couple of hours of black-and-white television each day — and that largely devoted to the doings of the residents of the Palaţul Primaverii . |
| 20 | It is a skill I have honed on a host of beautiful staircases and , before tonight 's professional debut , my most singular success has been at a large hotel in Sloane Street where we just chose Miss London.The marble stairs to the entrance hall are just too perfect to ignore , with only a couple of people chatting on the right halfway down.I take the left hand course and soar down and round the gentle curve in nothing short of majestic style , allowing myself the luxury of a smile and a brief wave to the startled pair as I rattle by . |
| 21 | With central heating and fewer smokers these days , the decoration in a home can last 10 years or more with only a couple of adult occupants and you could therefore feel the need for change long before it really needs doing . |
| 22 | Now , with only a couple of things left to read , I have suddenly had enough of the miserable food , of the noise — a sort of veech sound — of men sucking their teeth , of the monotonous landscape barely visible through the smoke-fogged window … |
| 23 | The handsome , blond cavalier of her youth was now bald and red-faced , with only a couple of teeth left in his head . |
| 24 | Michael Banks managed his lines fairly well , with only a couple of mishearings and one awfully long thirty seconds where he totally lost the thread . |
| 25 | To date we 've printed several thousand pages of WP text , DTP and Graphics , all without a hitch , and with only a couple of paper mis-feeds . |
| 26 | Airdrie are anchored at the foot of the Premier Division , but with only a couple of points separating the bottom three clubs , they are not yet adrift , and a good run could yet make them safe . |
| 27 | I can only hazard a guess at what it must have been like to sail in a typical convoy , with bombers and submarines liable to strike at any moment , or to brave the Western Approaches with only a couple of inches of rusting metal between yourself and the enemy . |
| 28 | After running the filter for a few days , stock with just a couple of fish to begin with , and gradually build up to full stocking . |
| 29 | This is because it is considered such a minor part of the hobby , with just a couple of species available , Monos and Scats . |
| 30 | In just a couple of days you 'll find your feet and get that special feeling that you belong in your Club . |