Example sentences of "was [adv] a couple [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going to grammar school really made me isolated It was only a couple of miles away from where I lived but that 's a long way when you 're only 11 — years-old and all your mates from junior school had gone to the local comprehensive round the corner . |
| 2 | He was only a couple of years older than Jack but he was huge — almost as wide as he was tall — and although Jack had never had much to do with him he knew he was reputed to be a bully . |
| 3 | But they went warily , for Gilsland was only a couple of miles ahead . |
| 4 | But he thought he knew a thing or two about muscles , and the knowledge that it was only a couple of big muscles that were keeping him alive was not comforting . |
| 5 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 6 | The memory was only a couple of minutes old , but he felt that scrap of the past unravel to bring him back to the moment when she said , ‘ I 'd been out to meet someone . |
| 7 | Scott steadied himself , waiting until the shape was only a couple of feet from him , then leapt forward , crashing into the intruder . |
| 8 | Carson 's place was only a couple of miles away , in a vastly overpriced and overcrowded strip along less than half a mile of the river east from Kew Bridge . |
| 9 | Although the little hut at Trebyan was only a couple of hundred yards from the house and the pottery it was over the slope of the hill and hemmed in by gorse and hawthorn : a single large room with a verandah , built of lap boarding , raised on a brick base and set in the side of the hill . |
| 10 | Eva sang and Margaret watched , filled with admiration for the sister who was only a couple of years ahead of her in age but light years away in confidence . |
| 11 | ‘ It was only a couple of buttons … ’ |
| 12 | But the Tates ' house was only a couple of hundred yards away . |
| 13 | Please let us know about EVERY class that operated at any time in 1988 , whether it was only a couple of weeks in January or a short summer course ( children or adults ) and take the highest number on roll at any time in the year . |
| 14 | It was a pretty entertaining match although there was only a couple of hundred people there . |
| 15 | Next day I was a second rigger on a Vickers Victoria — a large troop carrier known as the " flying pig " because of its girth , The squadron had a general purpose role and just how general call be gauged by my first flight , which was only a couple of days later — to deliver a coffin-like box to RAF Shaibah near Basra , The journey only took a few hours , On arrival the coffin was decanted and refilled with ice and shark meat in exchange for the pork we had brought from the squadron pig firm . |
| 16 | It was only a couple of feet or a yard was n't it ? |
| 17 | it was only a couple of pound a yard . |
| 18 | He was already a couple of metres above the girder . |
| 19 | ‘ Exactly , and it did n't improve matters from Alfred 's point of view when he discovered that she was already a couple of months pregnant by Matthew when she married him . ’ |
| 20 | The place that Belov had in mind was just a couple of hundred metres further , he told her . |
| 21 | He finally stopped when he was just a couple of feet away from her . |
| 22 | As he had said , it was just a couple of rooms , very simply furnished . |
| 23 | Rather than the last meeting , it was just a couple of days after the last meeting , so rather than wait until now , I circulated all the papers I 'd got . |
| 24 | His daughter was a nice she was a nice she was home a couple of times , I met her . |
| 25 | There was always a couple of works men on call , so it could easily have been done . |
| 26 | It was after midnight before they passed a dimly discerned height called , apparently , Spittalridding Hill , where there was a monastic hospice ; and there was still a couple of miles to go to the Annan ford , they were told . |
| 27 | Sunset was still a couple of hours away , but the town roofs seemed touched with a silver gleam . |
| 28 | It was here a couple of minutes ago . |
| 29 | I was there a couple of weeks and the record business went bust and she had to close down . |
| 30 | she was there a couple of years ago , two or three years ago . |