Example sentences of "[verb] in the [num ord] couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buffalo will know in the next couple of days whether Kelly will be fit to face Houston again in the first round of the play-offs next weekend . |
| 2 | Well , no what I 'm , what I 'm denying is I 'm questioning your assertion on what 's been happening in the last couple of weeks that we should react to that on a pa on er er report that has n't been released , right ? |
| 3 | The Portadown player had to work in the first couple of frames but after that he stepped up a gear and dismissed the English player almost scornfully . |
| 4 | Work on the production line starts in the next couple of days with the sales of the Vauxhall Cavalier and Opel Vextra containing the engine expected next spring . |
| 5 | Jointly planned with the Educational Development Unit the workshop was the first in a series of ‘ pilot ’ workshops for new academic staff to be organised in the next couple of years . |
| 6 | Social services staff have been negotiating with the Department of Health and are expecting a decision to be made in the next couple of weeks . |
| 7 | See , I think we 're obliged to now say something about erm these general skills , I think in light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks |
| 8 | And certainly not in the light of what 's been said in the last couple of weeks that 's |
| 9 | I think one of the biggest problems we 've got or I 've I 've had in the last couple of years is that we 've got so many primary schools that we get children from Spring Gardens and Western are now producing national curriculum information for which Marian has got . |
| 10 | But several senior finance officers said last week that between two and three dozen health authorities could face bed closures and service cuts in the next couple of months , with others deferring developments . |
| 11 | Several RAF stations have closed in the last couple of weeks including Kemble , Abingdon , and Greenham Common In Berkshire . |
| 12 | It could have occurred in the last couple of days , within the Metropolitan police area . |
| 13 | ‘ I do think in the last couple of months he 's gone too far . |
| 14 | Any reason given in the first couple of stanzas . |
| 15 | Make suggestions for people I can go out and hassle in the first couple of days of the week . |
| 16 | As Richard has said earlier , this is an area on which strategic work will be undertaken in the next couple of years or so . |
| 17 | Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves . |
| 18 | I well I reckon , the trouble is , it depends on how things go in the next couple of weeks |
| 19 | Details of the rescheduled UK shows should be announced in the next couple of weeks . |
| 20 | The port of La Sabina has been extended and modernised in the last couple of years and is home to many a fancy yacht . |
| 21 | We have traditional defences on , for example , diminished responsibility which allow murder to be reduced to manslaughter , or defences introduced in Acts that have been passed in the last couple of years . |
| 22 | A national conference in March 1980 , organised by the Women and Housing Group , attracted 200 women , and a women-only housing co-operative has started in the last couple of years to house its members . |
| 23 | I 've had £230-worth of parking fines in the last couple of months ! ’ |
| 24 | I have in the last couple of lectures erm outlined or tried to outline erm Locke 's basic decision erm his concept of how we as individuals are related to nature , to each other and I 've emphasised the crucial importance of this notion of how we are related to God . |
| 25 | You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme . |