Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are reduced to a handful of Scottish Back Benchers and perhaps only a couple of Opposition Scottish Back Benchers on the Standing Committee , that will be deeply resented . |
| 2 | Perhaps just a couple of others , you may want to think about things like Questions . |
| 3 | The Thirties depression was a result of the US banking system disintegrating and the money supply collapsing by half in just a couple of years . |
| 4 | Julius returned in just a couple of minutes . |
| 5 | Even silver for the major World Fairs , which did extremely well a couple of years ago , was weak . |
| 6 | You know we have a considerable holding of er , land immediately adjacent to the reasonable shopping centre there and erm , if and when things become buoyant again and I went down there a couple of weeks and I was rather impressed by , by the look of the area , then clearly land prices go up and we have the capacity to , to generate more profit . |
| 7 | The secret is to concentrate on just a couple of areas . |
| 8 | Could you hang on just a couple of minutes ? |
| 9 | When I was asking them which was their favourite area , not unsurprisingly a couple of them mentioned the Lake District — anytime except in the summer holidays . |
| 10 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 11 | It 's generally just a couple of bob here or a cigarette or something like that . ’ |
| 12 | Just once a couple of tears rolled down . |
| 13 | He only got started to work just about a couple of years before the war . |
| 14 | Prime Minister is normally here a couple of times a week to answer questions maybe the honourable gentleman will catch my eye one time very soon , he can put that to the Prime Minister himself . |
| 15 | The infantry detailed to guard them let off only a couple of volleys before also taking to their heels . |
| 16 | It went off only a couple of days after the meeting . |
| 17 | But you must have met him , he 's been up here a couple of times . |
| 18 | He went up there a couple of times and stood outside on the pavement forcing leaflets on people , trying to get them to come inside . |
| 19 | After a few touch-and-goes I was able to clean-up slickly : throttles carefully forward a couple of inches at main-wheel touch ( no automatic fuel control below 16,000 rpm ) , hold the nose-wheel an inch or two off the tarmac and retract the airbrakes ( thumb switch up for speed-up ) , a bit more throttle , flaps to fifteen ( toggle switch on side console forward — do n't even contemplate touching that too-obtrusive up-and-down flap-shaped undercarriage selector in the corner of you eye on the panel ahead ) , more power , the roar deepens with a steady push from behind , glance at the ASI , full throttle , speed building through ninety , rotate , positive climb , gear up , speed 120 , flaps up speed 170 , crank on the bank and we are downwind again . |
| 20 | The hoverspeeder 's cockpit was now only a couple of metres below , and slightly to one side of , the platform . |
| 21 | We managed perfectly alright a couple of years ago when the buses did n't come up here , we could manage now . ’ |
| 22 | When you have some children who find it very difficult to work with others , one solution might be to work with much smaller groups , maybe even just a couple of them at a time for five minutes or so . |
| 23 | From , from Yugoslavia , and we , we heard provisionally he was released about August did n't we , and then eventually a couple of months ago that he had definitely released , erm , and , were , were very pleased about that cos was he released before the end of his term , he must have been ? |
| 24 | Draw a small naked figure , as small as you like , maybe only a couple of centimetres tall . |
| 25 | Draw a small naked figure , as small as you like , maybe only a couple of centimetres tall . |
| 26 | There are at least only a couple of potential potholes rather than a series . |
| 27 | We had dinner there only a couple of weeks ago . |
| 28 | And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty . |
| 29 | It was a featureless box , big enough to take several shuttles , maybe even a couple of X-ships . |
| 30 | Maybe maybe a couple of hours work on it to put it back together . |