Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little dabs of left brake counteracted the crosswind for the first couple of hundred yards , but above sixty knots the rudders became effective and she was easy to align just beside the centreline lights to spare us their jolting . |
| 2 | New telephone numbers have been issued to all staff , but a few main enquiry numbers will be retained and calls on the old numbers will be transferred to the new building for the first couple of months . |
| 3 | It was arranged that I should have only a very small amount of money for the next couple of weeks That was the point : to pretend to be poverty-stricken , to see how we would manage . |
| 4 | We all intend to continue the same sort of programme for the next couple of years and I have said I would like to call in next term and on a periodic basis until our responsibility ceases . |
| 5 | We have n't had overtime for the last couple of weeks . |
| 6 | Donna , satisfied that her sister was well , asked the hotel to get her a hire car for the next couple of days . |
| 7 | For example , you can form a curve in a stalk by positioning it in the required shape and then securing it with tiny pieces of tape for the first couple of days of pressing . |
| 8 | Golly it 'd be interesting to know what they 'd make of this tape for the next couple of hours . |
| 9 | I wonder if I could offer you a cup of coffee in my department within the next couple of minutes ? ’ |
| 10 | And DEC says it 'll launch an Alpha-based Pixel Graphics subsystem in the next couple of months . |
| 11 | ‘ Mind you , I 'm regarded more as a provider than a goalscorer and I have n't done too badly in that department over the last couple of years . ’ |
| 12 | If nothing else , the relative lack of action over the last couple of nights would ensure a good sleep before setting off home . |
| 13 | Unless the new pitch is going to be pretty hard wearing , prospects for staging Euro 96 , and perhaps more importantly for playing good football over the next couple of seasons , do not look good ! ! |
| 14 | The Government fatally underestimate how very chastened many consumers are by the harsh experience of the last couple of years . |
| 15 | I 've spoken with the daughter on the telephone within the last couple of months , and each time our telephone conversations are exactly the same — the daughter 's at the end of her tether , she does n't know what to do . |
| 16 | He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years . |
| 17 | O K , but if you have n't shown your face at the window in the first couple of minutes I 'm coming in after you . ’ |
| 18 | The seemingly inexorable march of new technology in the newspaper industry has taken on a new complexion over the last couple of weeks . |
| 19 | But he will get it right with a bit more work over the next couple of days . ’ |
| 20 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 21 | The policy of this council over the last couple of years has been to get down to that figure enforced upon us as gracefully as possible with the least damage to our services and the least damage to the morale of our staff and our staff are after all the most important asset that a local authority possesses and that is what we 're trying to consider . |
| 22 | Everything is flowing remarkably smoothly at present , so I can afford to give you my undivided attention for the next couple of weeks . |
| 23 | We have a meeting within the next couple of weeks to discuss those proposals and I assure my Hon. Friend that we will publish the details as quickly as possible . |
| 24 | Look at Tony Cottee at Everton , Dean Saunders at Liverpool and Nigel Jemson at Nottingham Forest in the last couple of years . |
| 25 | all of a sudden in the next couple of years you 've got to go through thousands of years of evolution . |
| 26 | One new initiative in the next couple of years , will be the opening of a third front — the Far East/Pacific Rim . |
| 27 | The various pros and cons have been discussed and highlighted in the Journal over the last couple of years so I will not repeat them , although printing costs of the vouchers must be very high compared with a ‘ one off card ’ . |
| 28 | The plan is to grow the lawnmower business over the next couple of years and then float the shares to raise cash to add in a few operations that are less seasonal , and less weather-dependent . |
| 29 | Mr O'Hare suspects that ‘ not that many [ profit sharing schemes ] have been put in place over the last couple of years ’ because of the cash flow drain represented by the company 's contributions to the fund . |
| 30 | It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days . |