Example sentences of "the [num ord] couple [prep] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 2 | Babies are n't very nice for the first couple of years of their lives either , though it is modern to say the opposite . |
| 3 | For the first couple of years , I was angry , permanently bad-tempered , and sexually frustrated . |
| 4 | My arrival put paid to her travels — at least for the first couple of years . ’ |
| 5 | For the first couple of years I shared a flat with a friend , then my paternal grandmother died and unexpectedly left me a small legacy . |
| 6 | Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die . |
| 7 | I mean if you 're doing me medicine , for the first couple of years you you 're just doing text book work are n't you , mostly ? |
| 8 | ‘ We had set a target of £600,000 to cover buying the equipment and running it for the first couple of years , ’ she said . |
| 9 | The most recent was in the early 1980s , during the first couple of years of the Thatcher government but that only lasted for 18 months . |
| 10 | It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through . |
| 11 | I have n't been very successful with my aubergines the last couple of years , as they keep being eaten by caterpillars . |
| 12 | Whatever enforced their absence for the last couple of years , it was n't an extensive search for a new musical direction . |
| 13 | The Atari ST has dominated the 16-bit market over the last couple of years as a ‘ dual purpose ’ machine . |
| 14 | But he 's developed his game over the last couple of years very well . |
| 15 | For the last couple of years , Sombro has periodically disappeared . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | THE IMPROVING image of diesels in the last couple of years may have encouraged sales . |
| 20 | Research into the form and content of user interfaces for GIS has accelerated rapidly in the last couple of years . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | This is the second new recording of Kismet to have come along in the last couple of years . |
| 23 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 24 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 25 | Look at Tony Cottee at Everton , Dean Saunders at Liverpool and Nigel Jemson at Nottingham Forest in the last couple of years . |
| 26 | In the last couple of years the number of connections for fax terminals alone has doubled , and is now around a million — and that 's just in the UK . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But often over the last couple of years our help has enabled a business to keep going . ’ |
| 29 | Mr O'Hare suspects that ‘ not that many [ profit sharing schemes ] have been put in place over the last couple of years ’ because of the cash flow drain represented by the company 's contributions to the fund . |
| 30 | Oils , impasted thickly onto large canvases , layer over layer , spread like butter , then gouged to show the textures and folds of paint already lying beneath , have dominated Dariusz Romanowski 's painting style over the last couple of years . |