Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [num ord] couple " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best authorities for the next couple of years of Burton 's life — back in the UK , waiting for the demob in various rural localities — is the actor Warren Mitchell . |
| 2 | Developments such as these were to occupy some of Newton 's successors for the next couple of centuries . |
| 3 | For many this is just costume dressing , but it points to a refinement of the relaxed creed now dominant in menswear , which is bound to filter through to high street shops in the next couple of seasons . |
| 4 | Erm whether it 'll be a sustained erm recovery is another question , but I think you can take the view that you know you will , you will get some mileage out of share performances in the next couple of years . |
| 5 | With performances over the next couple of seasons helping to decide which club gains promotion to the All-Ireland League set-up , it is vital that clubs get off to a good start . |
| 6 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 7 | Are there going to be any more job losses over the next couple of years ? |
| 8 | The postulate will hold good , however , under the definitions of the last couple of paragraphs . |
| 9 | THE cricket season it would appear is back to front with the excellent weather coming late in the summer and the two principal magazines which cover the sport , only hitting the newsstands in the last couple of weeks . |
| 10 | Much has been written about training shoes over the last couple of years , as the style magazines and the newspapers have tried to come to terms with the massive increase in the popularity of the trainer . |
| 11 | FLACO HAS been involved in some fun collaborations over the last couple of decades — his trembling accordion signature on Ry Cooder 's ‘ He 'll Have To Go ’ and the peppy bits on Dwight Yoakam 's ‘ Streets Of Bakersfield ’ are two good examples . |
| 12 | The volume of beer sold through Greenall 's pubs over the last couple of months has shown a fall on 1988 levels , said the group financial director , Mr Michael Davis , as he unveiled profits up 10.5 per cent to £52million for the year to September . |
| 13 | Together with Nina 's secretary , Alex rescheduled most of the Editor 's appointments for the next couple of weeks . |
| 14 | S see you every four weeks for the next couple of months , When are you |
| 15 | Silvia had stuck to her promises for the first couple of days , but then had followed a catalogue of excuses and cancelled lessons that had left Ronni feeling angry and on edge . |
| 16 | IBM Corp will launch two new Thinkpad laptops within the next couple of weeks according to documents seen by Computerworld : the paper says the new ThinkPad 720 and 720C machines will be based on the current Model 700s with faster 25/50MHz 486SLC2 processors , 160Mb hard disks and management facilities that bump battery life up to 7.75 hours on the monochrome and 4.8 hours on the colour version ; the new machines also have improved peripheral support , with space for either two PCMCIA type 2 cards or a single type 3 ; a new sub-notebook computer is also ready , but will not be announced until the summer . |
| 17 | Adjusting to the disjointed ordering of time is like trying to adjust to the idea of massing all one 's sleeping hours into the first couple of weeks of the month to have the remaining two weeks wide awake . |
| 18 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |
| 19 | With more efficient magnetic gradient coils and more sophisticated , cost effective computer power , echo planar imaging will be an available option on most conventional MRI scanners in the next couple of years . |
| 20 | Watch these pages in the next couple of months for full and exciting details . |
| 21 | As a lowly , poorly paid teacher and a member of Mensa , I wonder if RUNNING could put me in touch with sponsors and promoters who might make me a few million pounds over the next couple of years , even though I 'm not Canadian . |
| 22 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ We 'll be finalising our plans in the next couple of weeks . ’ |
| 23 | However a special helpline for patients , set up on 0204 390999 , received 100 calls in the first couple of hours . |
| 24 | erm Let me refer to an advertisement which erm some listeners may have seen in the Radio Times in the last couple of weeks . |
| 25 | Presently treading water as a three-year-old compiler house , Portland Group Inc , Wilsonville , Oregon , is expected to grab the bull by the horns over the next couple of months and put in place strategies which it claims will lead the company into more profitable software markets . |
| 26 | Siemens AG has now acknowledged that it is looking for a strategic partner for its troubled Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG , which is facing growing woes over the next couple of years now that the German economy is plunging into what threatens to be deep recession . |
| 27 | By law they have to ballot their members in the next couple of years on whether they can keep their political funds , through which they give money to the party . |
| 28 | ‘ We are certainly bearing in mind Nathan Munson , who has been in excellent form for the Youths over the last couple of months , ’ explained McDonough . |
| 29 | You get ‘ funny ’ results for the first couple of weeks … lets hope that we learn lessons , and get down to work . |
| 30 | The false starts of the last couple of years have forced a much more flexible approach to budgeting , management of the supply chain , staff scheduling and so on . |