Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] the [num ord] couple of " in BNC.

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1 cos if you 've missed the first couple of weeks ' worth or so erm
2 Clearly er , it 's er , again in , in paragraph four , under future budget of er , the services is going to be critical , if you 've seen the last couple of years that are defined in the pay , and that 's going to continue .
3 And I would ask you to have regard to that erm when you look at the technical criteria which we 've spent the last couple of hours looking at .
4 He is beginning to move on from the subjects which have dominated the last couple of years , feeling that he has gleaned all the experience he can from them .
5 I have spent the last couple of weeks visiting garages with my husband attempting to exchange our shared vehicle .
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