Example sentences of "[vb base] the [num ord] couple of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I mean the first couple of days , we spent a lot of time just trying to cool people down and and stop them panicking and er and stop them going over the top . |
2 | Yeah but like think about it , first , I mean the first couple of tapes of people like saying oh yeah , so then we had sex , and then we gave him a blow job ! |
3 | But it , yeah , I mean I quite take all of these qualifications but if sh if you take the first couple of paragraphs does n't it seem to be a call to , to radical land reform ? |
4 | If you can just work spend the next couple of minutes working through that . |
5 | Erm see the last couple of years it 's changed again . |