Example sentences of "[prep] the last couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 2 | This caused a delay of nine minutes , but play was able to restart for the last couple of overs . |
| 3 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 4 | For the last couple of years , Sombro has periodically disappeared . |
| 5 | For the last couple of years my Sambucus racemosa ‘ Plumosa Aurea ’ has started well in spring , but soon the leaves brown and some even fall early . |
| 6 | ‘ And as for the idea that I am being some how manipulated all I can say is that I do n't know about the other girls but I have been in a similar industry — television , for the last couple of years and now I know how it works . |
| 7 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 8 | However , it has not officially been published for the last couple of years and the figures shown for 1986/87 are unofficial ones culled from the published NHS annual accounts ( DHSS , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 10 | For the last couple of months the Moor has had problems with a split tail and fins . |
| 11 | For the last couple of weeks , I had two posters in my windows , facing on to a fairly busy street . |
| 12 | For the last couple of times , Neil Kinnock has tried to look working class and dropped his aitches , and this year Paddy Ashdown came out in favour of a well-hung parliament and dropped his trousers . |
| 13 | Quality DJs from all over the country have been coming to Middlesbrough for the last couple of years , including London DJs who are now returning through the Flying organisation . |
| 14 | The £700,000 striker missed the last two games with a badly bruised shoulder , but he has been back in training for the last couple of days and will have a late fitness check tonight . |
| 15 | Wearing various Squadron markings over the years with BBMF , ‘ LF ’ for the last couple of years was seen in the markings of James Nicolson 's aircraft , ‘ GN-A ’ of 249 Squadron . |
| 16 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 17 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 18 | For the last couple of days I have frantically been trying to work out some sort of compromise , but whichever way I look at it , I just do not have the cash to flee the country . |
| 19 | On a more specific nature we 've sponsored a five-a-side football competition at the local Leisure Centre , for the last couple of years . |
| 20 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 21 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 22 | I 've been promising myself a drink for the last couple of hours … ’ |
| 23 | All our mental and physical energies for the last couple of days have been concentrated on food . |
| 24 | For the last couple of years , my thoughts have been full of Anne . |
| 25 | ‘ I rather think , ’ said the Archdeacon detachedly , ‘ that for the last couple of months she had merely visited . ’ |
| 26 | If our climate continues to be as mild as it has been for the last couple of winters we may yet challenge our French and German competitors ! ’ |
| 27 | So Frances and Mrs Malloy — four grown-up children and seven grandchildren — danced together for the last couple of hours . |
| 28 | Colleagues , I know that people are starting to move out , and I 'm sure that it 's got nothing to do with Mick 's appearance at the rostrum , but colleagues seriously , seriously for the last couple of days we 've had a great deal of disciplines so please try and be as quiet as possible . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , folks , we may not have heard our favourite songbird sing for the last couple of weeks , but it 's certainly nice to know our very own Rory can still put on one hell of a floorshow ! ’ |
| 30 | Clarke has not played in that position for the last couple of years , but performed excellently . |