Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [num ord] couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I rather think , ’ said the Archdeacon detachedly , ‘ that for the last couple of months she had merely visited . ’ |
| 2 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 3 | As I said I 'll be talking about this in the next couple of weeks in the lectures and I hope to cover various things we did n't have time to touch on . |
| 4 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 5 | Much of the next couple of hundred yards of river are fairly shallow and fast and would be good points to fish in the height of summer when fish look for these places for the extra oxygen available there . |
| 6 | Well presumably you have n't played at all in the last couple of weeks , so it 's so you 're feeling perhaps a little bit rusty about it all ? |
| 7 | Lucy spent most of the next couple of hours in the ground-floor utility room just behind the room where she 'd slept , sitting on the tiles against the wall and reading back numbers of magazines while her washing tumbled around in the Zanussi . |