Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 2 | So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours . |
| 3 | ‘ The hotel has been condemned and is to be pulled down within the next couple of days . ’ |
| 4 | It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through . |
| 5 | Indeed , according to Booth , it is only in the last couple of years that it has focused on product marketing . |
| 6 | What , only in the last couple of days ? |
| 7 | I was reading an article only in the last couple of days where it was talking about not particularly tourism , it was talking about a business that was in difficulty , and it said , you know , do you actually make people redundant , you do you stop advertising and you know the bottom line is you 've got to keep advertising because if you do n't tell people you 're there nobody 's going to come and buy your product , whatever it is , and you 're going to disappear anyway . |
| 8 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 9 | Remember Liverpool only got their act together in the last couple of months and finished 6th . |
| 10 | Formby-born tournament referee Alan Mills said : ‘ It was a difficult decision bearing in mind he has not played much in the last couple of months because of injury . |
| 11 | It 's not as huge as a Jeff Beck model , being just under an inch deep at the 12th fret , nor is it anywhere near as vee-shaped as a Clapton Strat , but it 's still a sizeable handful , except down by the first couple of frets where it 's a fair bit shallower , in good ‘ 59 fashion . |
| 12 | ‘ All that running away in the last couple of rounds , it was crazy — an American TV audience would n't like it . ’ |
| 13 | And that 's just in the last couple of months ? |
| 14 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 15 | The PACE Day Centre near Aylesbury has been using the technique for the last 3 years , but it could all be over in the next couple of days . |
| 16 | We did find the Hall that was to be home for the next couple of nights , with a note pinned to the door giving directions to the pub where the rest of the Society had gathered . |
| 17 | Research into the form and content of user interfaces for GIS has accelerated rapidly in the last couple of years . |
| 18 | This is election year in the United States as well as in Britain and Japan however , and the Fed is under pressure to lower interest rates further in the next couple of months . |
| 19 | ‘ Sorry , I 'm tied up for the next couple of months with long-haul business trips , ’ Ashley interrupted . |
| 20 | I just did half and half and then I built up with the second couple of days then I did twenty minutes and then by the end of the week I went twenty five minutes half an hour . |
| 21 | Would it have anything to do with the warm weather , as the tank temperature has risen slightly over the last couple of weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks . |
| 23 | Within in the next couple of days at least ! |
| 24 | I have to say though , that market conditions have changed very substantially in the last couple of years , and we now have an opportunity before us , which is one which is unlikely to recur again . |
| 25 | With a bit of luck he 'll be back in the next couple of weeks . |
| 26 | But often over the last couple of years our help has enabled a business to keep going . ’ |
| 27 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 28 | In fact most outstanding problems were ironed out over the last couple of months , Goldstein says ; bug fixing remains . |
| 29 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
| 30 | We 've actually had a recycling paper project going on over the last couple of months , which made paper out of shredded newsprint and then made Christmas cards out of them . |