Example sentences of "within a couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a couple of weeks , his killer instincts had disappeared and he was back where he belonged — twitching away peacefully on the fireside rug . |
| 2 | I am over at the big house within a couple of minutes , kilt on , best sporran and carrying the bagpipes , and prepared for anything . |
| 3 | Within a couple of months I 'd splurged about £2,500 on all sorts of high-fashion clothes . |
| 4 | Yet the truth was that the CPRS report was consigned to the dustbin within a couple of weeks of its first appearing . |
| 5 | I must admit , I ca n't claim it was love at first sight , but within a couple of hours she had firmly established herself in my affections , ’ laughed Delia . |
| 6 | Make a X-cut in the top of the stump with a knife , and within a couple of months a series of small cabbages will develop from the cuts . |
| 7 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
| 8 | Of course , within a couple of years the standards simply plummeted because they simply could not cope . |
| 9 | The Tories can then expect to be returned within a couple of years , by an England — Disraeli did not mention Scotland or Wales — which has once again proved it does not love coalitions . |
| 10 | Britain won the title , and within a couple of years Fritzi and Rixi had become an internationally celebrated bridge double-act . |
| 11 | ‘ And too many sailors target the very sought-after minority of waterside properties , ’ whereas they can live on the outskirts of somewhere like Truro or surrounding areas ( where new five-bedroom executive houses have dropped to around £90,000 from £140,000 and large Victorian detached houses are £110,000 ) and have moorings within a couple of miles ' reach . |
| 12 | His back was cured within a couple of weeks — not , it turns out , as a result of the acupuncture but after a bit of dancing while on holiday . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , I do n't think it was an accident that , within a couple of years of sorting myself out , I met David . |
| 14 | A side table was brought for McKillop and within a couple of minutes he had beside him a cup of tea and a plate with two small cakes upon it . |
| 15 | Within a couple of minutes of his destination he was approached by children again . |
| 16 | This is n't such an irrelevant statement as it may sound — it is a fact that almost all the volcanoes in the world are within a couple of hundred kilometres of the sea . |
| 17 | Why not ask the candidate to submit a report of the interview within a couple of days ? |
| 18 | When I mentioned this to my father he said he had to drive up that way and would take me in the car and call back for me within a couple of hours . |
| 19 | One twelve-inch Marathon record achieved a playing-time of more than 16 minutes , spread over two sides ; but customers had to change the soundbox of their record-players to cope with ‘ hill-and-dale ’ grooves , and within a couple of years non-standardization had claimed another victim . |
| 20 | Within a couple of years , non-standardization had claimed another victim ; but this time , the recorded legacy includes records which we can not play back electronically , because the mechanism has to work with a clockwork motor . |
| 21 | Every attack was accompanied by the certain knowledge that within a couple of hours I 'd be under the knife . |
| 22 | So the new lines would each need only two workers , the increase in productivity paying for the new control system within a couple of years . |
| 23 | Non-fundholders wait ten months for some outpatient appointments , fundholders can bring the consultant to the surgery to see the patient within a couple of weeks ; this of course helps to get a quicker place on the operation waiting list . |
| 24 | Within a couple of days of adding two Nitrex boxes there was a bacterial bloom of green water , reducing visibility to three inches , but the Puffer and Caulerpa are fine . |
| 25 | Within a couple of days of taking this , she began to weep , and she then became very concerned because she just could not stop crying . |
| 26 | To my surprise she felt able to walk right up to within a couple of feet of where the birds were . |
| 27 | But within a couple of pages , it 's back to the hollow sound of random jottings . |
| 28 | At first we also ran a lot together , but that came to an abrupt halt on one particular morning when twice within a couple of 100 yards I had to stop , complaining of chest pains . |
| 29 | The young males had left the nest and taken wing ; within a couple of generations almost no-one would even remember these Westcountry origins — such is the way of things . |
| 30 | Provided the serial numbers are kept separate , lost or stolen cheques can usually be replaced within a couple of days . |