Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] for a couple of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 2 | You know they were only being taken on for a couple of months and they , they wanted to form a trade union but quite a lot of the tra er father Christmases would n't join a trade union . |
| 3 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 4 | ‘ The woman involved was a married woman with a family and she and Philip had lived together for a couple of months but she decided to go back to her husband in September . ’ |
| 5 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 6 | I 'm not an expert — I 've only lived there for a couple of years . ’ |
| 7 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |