Example sentences of "[adj] than a couple [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 2 | Ten of their 13 opponents in the Rio de Janeiro championship are minor teams , which means a series of games in tiny stadiums on bumpy , pot-holed pitches and rarely more than a couple of thousand fans . |
| 3 | The poor old PCW could n't hold more than a couple of thousand . |
| 4 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 5 | These do n't usually rise more than a couple of hundred metres before falling back along parabolic paths . |
| 6 | They are rarely more than a couple of hundred metres high , and they are usually symmetrical , although they may be ‘ breached ’ on one side , where a lava flow has emerged . |
| 7 | Moreover , statistics collected by the Countryside Commission suggest that the overwhelming majority of visitors to the countryside venture no more than a couple of hundred yards from their car . |
| 8 | He liked to boast that , in central London , he was never more than a couple of hundred yards from some club , institution or association of which he was a member and which could provide , at the very least , a roof in a rainstorm . |
| 9 | It will not say how many subscribers it has — only that it expects to sign up no more than a couple of dozen by the autumn . |
| 10 | The new companies , many of them under a year old and employing no more than a couple of dozen people , base their computers on processor chips imported from the US . |
| 11 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 12 | In each of 1986 and 1987 , a little less than a couple of dozen suspects would seem to have been detained long into the fourth day in the London area ( Metropolitan Police Commissioner , 1987 , 1988 ) . |