Example sentences of "couple [prep] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of weeks in a cool place the beer should have cleared and be ready for drinking . |
| 2 | Should n't take more than a couple of weeks at most … |
| 3 | They announced it just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 4 | Within a couple of weeks , his killer instincts had disappeared and he was back where he belonged — twitching away peacefully on the fireside rug . |
| 5 | I always feel like saying , ‘ Look , it 's OK , I 'll come back in a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 6 | I could be in London this evening with Colonel Vaughan having a good piss-up , then probably on leave for a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | When you do speak to your target people , it is important to emphasize that all you want is the person 's opinion and that you will phone back in a couple of weeks to find out what they think . |
| 8 | A couple of weeks after Brighton she came into the shop , presuming we were going out together that evening — without having told me what she intended , I 'd arranged to go and see a band with a mate from art college . |
| 9 | A girl I was seeing pretty regularly had gone to France on an exchange visit to Tours I took a job for a couple of weeks in a lino warehouse with the idea of getting some money together |
| 10 | The old Escorts went up more than 12 per cent last year , the last rise coming just a couple of weeks before the introduction of the new model . |
| 11 | During the next couple of weeks , important family discussions should be underway . |
| 12 | All that now remained was to get the next couple of weeks over — have the party , get Karl away , see Erika settled , get the business of the accident cleared up and then , although he did not normally think in melodramatic terms — then the future ! |
| 13 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
| 14 | Reminder that any notes you would like to appear in this bulletin should be given to Mrs Valerie Belton ( 0869 50405 ) or , FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS , placed in an envelope marked ‘ Bulletin ’ and posted through the letter box of the Parish House . |
| 15 | Reminder that any notes you would like to appear in this next bulletin should be given to Mrs Valerie Belton ( 0869 50405 ) or , FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS , placed in an envelope marked ‘ Bulletin ’ and posted through the letter box of the Parish House . |
| 16 | Just a couple of weeks later , Betty popped up on the BRIT awards . |
| 17 | The event was supposed to be staged a couple of weeks back , but was postponed because Lewis was said to be unwell and still in America . |
| 18 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 19 | As the Fleet Street editors themselves recognised a couple of weeks ago , many British papers have forfeited the strength on which their freedom depends : they are not seen as the defenders of freedom by their own readers . |
| 20 | After David had been there a couple of weeks , I used to go off doing odd bits of work in London , working as a journalist , although I was n't very keen on that side of my life at the time — there were other things that interested me more . |
| 21 | It was a bit of a pain for a couple of weeks . |
| 22 | I would be flying over and staying with Angie for a couple of weeks at The Sherry Netherland , and Angie and I would go with Zowie in the daytime and then we 'd stay up all night with David because he functioned at night . |
| 23 | ‘ About someone called Angela Morgan whom you or another F. Wilson at the DTI had lunch with a couple of weeks ago . |
| 24 | The second one — the one she made a couple of weeks ago — i-s a bit more complicated , but not much . |
| 25 | Mr Takeshita , who subsequently wangled a meeting with Mr Bush to chat about the SII talks , has spent the past couple of weeks trying to get back into the limelight . |
| 26 | Yet the truth was that the CPRS report was consigned to the dustbin within a couple of weeks of its first appearing . |
| 27 | Could n't they have waited just another couple of weeks until he had officially retired at the end of the month ? |
| 28 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 29 | We were in Bath to stay for a couple of weeks with my parents , in time for Christmas and ‘ New Year 's ’ . |
| 30 | She remembered her mother 's words : ‘ Shot of him — for a couple of weeks — went off , straight to the airport — flying down to London — for a couple of weeks . ’ |