Example sentences of "couple [prep] years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of years they would be exchanged for someone else of sufficiently high position . |
| 2 | Every couple of years we would rewrite the address book , leaving out those items not referenced in the index and up-date the index ( or write another one ) . |
| 3 | well erm , I 'll see if this one 's a boy , probably in a couple of years we might try for a girl , I do n't know |
| 4 | In a couple of years we 'll be outnumbered . ’ |
| 5 | And the young lads are listening and learning erm so hopefully , in a couple of years we 'll have a good side over here . |
| 6 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 7 | One must n't give in to pessimism , and it 's pointless to look too far ahead , but in a couple of years she wo n't even be legal . |
| 8 | ‘ In a couple of years I 'll have an even better horse than Grye . ’ |
| 9 | but normally I ca n't sleep here I al I always admired anybody that could sleep with a for yea it 's only this last couple of years I can do it , no I mean I 'll doze . |