Example sentences of "couple of [noun] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price surprised him : you get a lot of car for just over £20,000 , if only in terms of its length , which is the same as a Mercedes 260E and a couple of inches more than the 5-series BMWs . |
| 2 | Can you bring a couple of ashtrays in when you come in ? |
| 3 | There are a couple of pints left or five pounds has to go . |
| 4 | ‘ We just need to put a couple of wins together and then the ball will be rolling again . ’ |
| 5 | And to be fair to you I 'm again going to give you a few minutes to talk about that , not quite as long as the other time , then I 'll ask you to jot a couple of things down as well as , so I 'm just telling you in advance . |
| 6 | ‘ A couple of minutes later and I would have walked right into it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ A couple of minutes more and you 'd have been somebody 's dinner . ’ |
| 8 | just spend a couple of minutes now and jot down what it is you would like to get out of this course by tomorrow afternoon what you would like to say you 've achieved on this course . |
| 9 | Frear had entered the cafe a couple of minutes earlier and had recognized Schellenberg instantly . |
| 10 | I only knew because he 's had to change his shifts at Conway House a couple of times so that he could be with her after her chemotherapy sessions . ’ |
| 11 | This was such a beautiful city , Merrill thought a couple of hours later as she paid for her coffee and left the pavement café . |
| 12 | ‘ I noticed a man wandering around the garden a couple of hours ago and asked him what he wanted . |
| 13 | Mrs Gray was more relaxed now than when she had received Theodora a couple of hours ago and Theodora gave herself up to the pleasure of walking through the church yard to the church door . |
| 14 | Take your time — I awakened a couple of hours ago and have already attended to my own needs . |
| 15 | ‘ I talked to him a couple of hours ago and he said that as soon as things quietened down he 'd get as much down on paper as he could remember . |
| 16 | The WRVS are also looking for additional meals on wheels drivers , for just a couple of hours once or twice a month . |
| 17 | I was going to ask for a couple of hours off and then he says , oh do n't bother ! |
| 18 | We tried the next couple of villages also before the truth dawned . |
| 19 | stop worrying about you know , losing any try and put a couple of pounds on if you ca n't then come to us and we 'll find out what 's wrong |
| 20 | I have n't noticed I 've lost any weight only that me clothes have gone a bit loose , it must be only a couple of pounds literally but on Mrs scales I 'm half a stone lighter , but I do n't think so by tomorrow night I 'll be about eleven , ten |
| 21 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 22 | There remains a couple of concerns even though I think this pattern will serve . |
| 23 | Then what it does is swim straight into your dick and once it gets there it sticks out a couple of spines sideways and just stays there . |
| 24 | We ca n't go round sacking our leaders every couple of years just because the voters do n't like them , can we ? |
| 25 | A stand-off agreement was struck between the two parties a couple of years ago but observers say the recent death of Savoy president Sir Hugh Wontner may have triggered a fresh attack . |
| 26 | This was er reported on a couple of years ago but we 've heard nothing since , is there any action ? |
| 27 | Now that 's a modern version , again I made that for a couple of years ago but the tradition there was you knitted on hands and you ladies will probably know , four pins , no seams , all on the circular , right up to the neck and then the cast on the sleeve there and again , no seams . |
| 28 | She did slim down a couple of years ago but has piled on the pounds again . |
| 29 | Goran stayed two weeks at Elland Road a couple of years ago but did not make it — even though he scored a number of goals in his test matches . |
| 30 | BAe made apprentices completing their training redundant a couple of years ago but made every effort to find them alternative jobs . |