Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would occupy a fairly modest 2U of rack space , larger perhaps than a couple of its contemporaries , but it has the advantage of a distinctly uncluttered look about it . |
| 2 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 3 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 4 | the motive was to steal scrap metal from the company the amount of metal would have been less than a couple of hundred pounds so quite a minor incident in itself . |
| 5 | There were whiffs of controversy in the air as the obsequies were dealt with , but only because a couple of the reporters interrogated retiring manager Micky Stewart over possible suspicion of Pakistan ball-tampering . |
| 6 | It 's just that a couple of ideas occurred to me , one of which will have occurred to you and one which you probably do n't know about . |
| 7 | ‘ Just that a couple of guys are taking the sound system out through the window . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 9 | This took no longer than a couple of seconds to see and understand , a near-abstract image accompanied by a few words . |
| 10 | He has never stayed in any one place longer than a couple of years and prides himself on knowing when to go . |
| 11 | Tufnell was also adjudged lbw in the next over and a couple of clogged sixes by Devon Malcolm off Muralidharan was the sum total of England 's eight-order resistance . |
| 12 | Liam complained that he had plenty to do with the new shop opening for him to be running around after doctors — ‘ just because a couple of kiddies are sick ’ . |
| 13 | Benfica 's Sergei Yuran , one of 20 internationals on the pitch for this prestige friendly — 10 each side , representing nine countries — missed a glorious chance early on and a couple of shots from Alexander Mostovoi had Peter Schmeichel scrambling to save . |
| 14 | With a little cry of distress she turned to flee from the room , but got no further than a couple of steps when Luke caught her . |
| 15 | We could have used more than a couple of training sessions , though , to prepare to meet a team of the All Blacks ’ calibre . ’ |
| 16 | This is equivalent to five days ' trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange , 2.5 times more than a couple of years ago . |
| 17 | They had never drunk more than a couple of beers each , never raised their voices , and always complimented Trent on the fish he grilled each evening . |
| 18 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 19 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 20 | Take special care with long quoted passages ( more than a couple of sentences or more than a few lines of a poem ) , as a lengthy quotation which is not then followed by detailed analysis and discussion is probably being used ( illegitimately ) as a way of replacing rather than supporting your argument ; you should guide your readers through the significance of what you have selected for their attention . |
| 21 | It was so heavy I could hardly seen more than a couple of feet in front of me . ’ |
| 22 | And there was a bonny pantomime once when a couple of grouse went missing and Uncle and Sam got into trouble . |
| 23 | She went on the ground and I picked her up and a couple of fellows came along , saying , ‘ Do you want any help , officer ? ’ |
| 24 | Up until a couple of years ago his name had been Peter Manstead . |
| 25 | By 1953 , the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location : the working-class boys and girls who , congregating around various London centres , had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style , the Edwardian Look . |
| 26 | Pronto is erm an area of the store where we sell our occasional furniture and erm small priced coffee tables , hi-fi units the occasional furniture that may go erm whereas up until a couple of years ago we use to display this product around the showroom floor part of the new concept stores was that we actually set the same section in the showroom which is very much like a a shelving system whereby the stock actually sits on the shelves , the customer walks in and it 's an easy easy purchase straight off the trolley erm very much like the supermarket operation so it 's the lower priced good value occasional type furniture the cash and carry the kind of things that you do n't need sales assistants for the kind of bookcase that you would put in your children 's bedroom that kind of thing . |
| 27 | Fear against them , I still would n't put it past them , I 'm not saying they will , I 'd be very surprised if they did try to get cos they 're cos they 're on the sort of er the brink of being excepted by the rest of the world again , you know , but up until a couple of years ago , this thing happened , you know conventional warfare were and they only way we can stop them is by nuclear warfare 's |
| 28 | Insiders reckon the notion of slimming the government machine carries even less credibility within City Hall now than a couple of years ago — and even then it was only talk . |
| 29 | I got to be careful at the doorways , cos there 's people coming in and out and a couple of times I nearly get knocked over by people bumping into me . |
| 30 | Leeds fortunately got their act together and started passing the ball around and a couple of minutes later Forrester volleyed in from ten yards after good work on the right by Dave White . |