Example sentences of "than a couple [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 2 | But no sooner was Mr Major off his battlebus than a couple of eggs took flight . |
| 3 | Kelly liked the man but dreaded those rare occasions when their conversations lasted for more than a couple of sentences . |
| 4 | Take special care with long quoted passages ( more than a couple of sentences or more than a few lines of a poem ) , as a lengthy quotation which is not then followed by detailed analysis and discussion is probably being used ( illegitimately ) as a way of replacing rather than supporting your argument ; you should guide your readers through the significance of what you have selected for their attention . |
| 5 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 6 | It was plainly a hungry leopard , for it was creeping up on an unsuspecting black-naped hare , an animal that would hardly have provided more than a couple of mouthfuls . |
| 7 | The time-consuming nature of Janet 's part in the process , combined with a bad back which prevents her spending more than a couple of hours at the drawing board every day , means she can not keep up with her husband 's prolific output . |
| 8 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 9 | He could n't have had more than a couple of hours ' sleep . |
| 10 | The second , or spare rod , is never left to fish for itself for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 11 | No details were discussed : ‘ I was n't there more than a couple of minutes , but I did n't feel rushed and I am not quite sure how I was shown the door . |
| 12 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |
| 13 | One broken collar-bone , and a cut on the back of his shoulder — and even that refused to bleed for more than a couple of minutes . |
| 14 | The taste is good enough to send half a million people a year squirrelling around in the woods of northern Michigan , in search of something that is often no more than a couple of inches high and is usually hidden under a thick pile of forest-floor debris . |
| 15 | In a way , the fat lady doctor turned sex on to its head and in those prepermissive days when no woman appeared on screen showing more than a couple of inches of cleavage , it was enough . |
| 16 | We have been spinning coins together since I do n't know when , and in all that time ( if it is all that time ) I do n't suppose either of us was more than a couple of gold pieces up or down . |
| 17 | Even the biggest stars rarely sell 6m copies ( as Janet must do if Virgin is to make a profit ) for more than a couple of records . |
| 18 | ‘ We rarely had more than a couple of deliveries a day — we did n't have the space . |
| 19 | Do you know I 've served in the Army for thirty three years and I 've commanded every thing at every level in the infantry which both these gentlemen have been in , from a platoon right up now to a brig er brigade and I can honestly tell you that I have n't seen more than a couple of incidents of bullying in the whole of that time . |
| 20 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 21 | The tidal range in the Caribbean sea off the north coast of Panama is very modest — no more than a couple of feet . |
| 22 | Even those specimens collected from deep water seem to accept captive life in no more than a couple of feet of water quite happily . |
| 23 | Easing the car into first gear , she set off back along the road , a frown deepening on her face as she was forced to crawl along at a snail 's pace , unable to see more than a couple of feet ahead in the ever-thickening snow . |
| 24 | It was so heavy I could hardly seen more than a couple of feet in front of me . ’ |
| 25 | But what had been no more than a slowly moving stream less than a couple of metres wide now flowed fast and dark with mud across the full thirty metres of the riverbed . |
| 26 | Do not repeat this more than a couple of times in rapid succession however , because otherwise the dog may start to interpret this as a game . |
| 27 | A third of the people who were successful in stopping , did n't gain weight or gained less than a couple of pounds . |
| 28 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 29 | ‘ I personally want to represent Canada at the 1995 World Cup ’ , he says , ‘ and , to be realistic , there is absolutely no way the Japan RFU will see their national team take the field with more than a couple of foreigners in the line-up . |
| 30 | It was particularly galling for the greens to see themselves overtaken by the extreme right National Front , which was being credited last night with 12.5 per cent of the vote but was not expected to win more than a couple of seats . |