Example sentences of "the last couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 2 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 3 | ‘ Over the last couple of months we have begun a preliminary look at the statistics with a view to doing our own calculations . |
| 4 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 5 | But Gary Marsh , head of research with the Halifax , the UK 's biggest building society , says it is inevitable that the modest improvement seen in the market over the last couple of months — especially in the South , where sellers have started to adjust to more realistic levels — will be damaged and the date of its recovery put back . |
| 6 | And all these pleasures , these frail joys that her most stringent discipline over the last couple of night-time hours had summoned up for her memory , they were simply not enough . |
| 7 | The Atari ST has dominated the 16-bit market over the last couple of years as a ‘ dual purpose ’ machine . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought it was getting better , ’ he said , ‘ but the last couple of days it seems to have got worse . ’ |
| 9 | But he 's developed his game over the last couple of years very well . |
| 10 | The volume of beer sold through Greenall 's pubs over the last couple of months has shown a fall on 1988 levels , said the group financial director , Mr Michael Davis , as he unveiled profits up 10.5 per cent to £52million for the year to September . |
| 11 | ‘ But in the last couple of months we 've seen things suddenly boil up — violent attacks , cars damaged , that sort of thing , along with loads of abuse . ’ |
| 12 | He started wearing women 's clothes , he started putting on make-up and on the last couple of times that I saw him he was pretty strange . |
| 13 | This caused a delay of nine minutes , but play was able to restart for the last couple of overs . |
| 14 | You 've seen my cuttings and you 've seen what 's been on the News the last couple of days . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 16 | For the last couple of years , Sombro has periodically disappeared . |
| 17 | Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer . |
| 18 | Dry weather is always bad news for gardeners and the last couple of summers seem to have put our annual rainfall on par with Arizona ! |
| 19 | For the last couple of years my Sambucus racemosa ‘ Plumosa Aurea ’ has started well in spring , but soon the leaves brown and some even fall early . |
| 20 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 21 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 22 | ‘ I think he will win , but it has only been when he has had the sun on his back in the last couple of days that he has really come on . ’ |
| 23 | When the park stays open late during the summer , you should be able to do most rides without lengthy queueing during the last couple of hours . |
| 24 | THE IMPROVING image of diesels in the last couple of years may have encouraged sales . |
| 25 | It could have occurred in the last couple of days , within the Metropolitan police area . |
| 26 | I have spent the last couple of weeks visiting garages with my husband attempting to exchange our shared vehicle . |
| 27 | Maybe the weight itself of thousands of boys over the last couple of decades had led to some sort of subsidence . |
| 28 | In the last couple of decades the scale and pace of agricultural developments , and the enormous impact they are having on the nature conservation value of the uplands , has become increasingly obvious . |
| 29 | But what has become evident in the last couple of decades in particular is the scale and pace of agricultural developments which have , and continue to , reduce both the nature conservation and landscape values of many of our upland areas . |
| 30 | In the last couple of decades the process has been extended to parts of the uplands . |