a couple of years

The gamble paid off, and within a couple of years, the company moved to a real office in Seattle.

I thought I'd help these children for a couple of years and get it out of my system.

Within a couple of years of its founding, Federal had crafted for the Navy a chain of arc transmitters linking San Francisco with Hawaii.

But Admiral McVadon says America "might have to worry" about such a possibility within a couple of years.

Just a couple of years ago, the U. S. battery industry seemed to be off to a promising start.

Keep Greece afloat for a couple of years and the rest of the eurozone will be robust enough to withstand the shock of a default.

That's remarkable when you think about where we were just a couple of years ago.

He persisted for a couple of years with a different brake material and it does seem to have helped him.

still half - asleep , i reminded him that i had taken his wife ' s inflamed appendix out a couple of years before .

In 2003 I would have said we were just a couple of years away from ending polio, and I would have been wrong.

It's gotten to the point where I'm actively looking for alternatives. I think I'll be out of here entirely in a couple of years.

When we moved into a rental apartment a couple of years ago, we realized that ownership had been a burden, a time sink, and a money pit.

A couple of years ago, John did a bit of soul-searching in his travels, but now he's got a kid and is more of a homebody.

I've been at it for a couple of years but nothing is happening. What's wrong with me?

A couple of years ago, the sea ice did not form at all until December and was gone again in March.

And a couple of years later, he said, "I've checked it out and it looks pretty good, it looks like it could be true. "

"That figures, " he said. "I did some work here at the start of summer. House had been empty for a couple of years. "

True there had been a couple of years of uncertainty after the dotcom crash.

I'm trying to set myself up so that in a couple of years, if I decide to settle down and have a family, I can.

A couple of years ago there was an article in Harvard Business Review showing that loveable people are valuable as they glue teams together.

As my body returns to me, I feel as if I'm shrugging into a comfortable old sweater that had been misplaced for a couple of years.

I hope I can reinvigorate his career, because a couple of years ago I thought he was one of the best defenders in the country.

If Apple continued to rise at the same rate, I wrote, it would be heading for $1, 000 per share in a couple of years.

I worked like a dog for that company and got nothing in return . That's why I left after working there for a couple of years .

One man in Australia a couple of years ago was under the delusion that his father was replaced with a robot and cut off his head.

There was an estimation, a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago that the U. S. economy benefited by 57 billion dollars per year.

As the sun set over the city, families and bands of teenagers strolled along the river, an unthinkable activity only a couple of years ago.

This was beginning to sound like work, so I left the idea alone for a couple of years.

Within a couple of years, the bank will be able to purchase infrastructure that implements the WS- standards.

We thought it would take a couple of years for him to reach this level, but he took to the challenge like a duck to water.

When we moved into a rental apartment a couple of years ago, werealized that ownership had been a burden, a time sink, and a money pit.

My first job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I determined what I wanted to do as a career.

And I flew as a co-pilot for a couple of years and then I got qualified as a what's called the White House Aircraft Commander: Chi huy.

As it turns out, aesthetics were Janoff's only real concern, as I discovered when interviewing him for MacFormat a couple of years ago.

If he does come out, Lee would be a gamble for the Lakers, but one that could pay huge dividends in a couple of years.

Until a couple of years before, General Young had been undisputed monarch of those parts of Shansi not controlled by the Reds.

But it needs to be done long-term. It needs to be a decade-long approach, rather than just a couple of years.

"We're going to be here for at least a couple of years, " he says with almost cheerful resignation.

A couple of years ago, if I was reading a post like that my mind would be so closed that I would not have clicked through to the site.

Sitting on the couch, Luyuan flicked through her photo album and found a picture of herself from a couple of years earlier.

Then she began helping out during surgeries, and after a couple of years of watching she was asked by Dr. Reg Hamlin to cut some stitches.

Yet, it seems that until a couple of years ago there was no proof that any person had ever broken glass with his or her voice alone.

"Can we pull this off? I believe we can, " she says. "This is not just a couple of years of my life. It's a mission. "

It would be tough for me to do right now, but in a couple of years, definitely.

A couple of years passed, and I decided to surprise Lillian by dedicating a new book to her.

You know, a couple of years this thing isn't going to be here.

For a couple of years, I retreated into a life of bohemian bachelorhood.

I grew up in Beijing, but I was in New York for a couple of years.

Then in a couple of years everyone will figure out that I'm too esoteric, and I'll be back to you again.

The concept of a budget cap a couple of years ago was thought to be fairly ludicrous.

Here's another robot called BigDog that came out a couple of years ago, but if you haven't seen the video, you really should.

I will come back to you in a couple of years to see whether it has proved to be correct.

Extracting that kind of money from shareholders within a couple of years would be almost impossible.

In a couple of years, he said, the cost in China will be about $600, compared with around $200 in Sri Lanka.

But after a couple of years of effort, it became apparent the project was a gargantuan effort and would never be finished.

Well, it's been a couple of years since I finished high school, but anyway. . . My experience is from Finnish high school.

General Motors, she writes, was bought by Fiat, "an event unimaginable just a couple [of] years earlier" .

France, which had its own defence review a couple of years ago, faces similar constraints.

But a couple of years into your venture, you find that you do want VC funding after all, and a VC wants you.

for a couple of years she and I knocked around the Mediterranean.

You know in a couple of years you'll find, That it is a free pass cool.

If a woman drops off the career track for a couple of years, Korean firms are far less likely than Western ones to welcome her back.

And, having spent a couple of years in California, I felt that my English was adequate and that I knew a little about the U. S.

I've taught an introductory software engineering course for a couple of years, and I think I've hit upon an approach that works.

You can remind me of all this when I take the first big job that's offered in a couple of years.

But I'm not the oldest person on the grid, so I might have a couple of years left and some more attempts.

I bet, in a couple of years, that phrases like coworking and couch surfing and time banks are going to become a part of everyday vernacular.

He will think you are a crusty old git , which could be unfortunate when he becomes your boss in a couple of years' time .

A COUPLE of years after it launched its website in 1995, Amazon was the subject of an unflattering report entitled "Amazon. Toast" .

because he had fallen in love with the woman who had nursed him back to health just a couple of years earlier.

My family started using this product a couple of years ago, but have had a hard time finding it in the local stores.

Compressed indexes have been around for a couple of years now - but will compressing your indexes automatically improve performance ?

Earlier on, I spoke to my colleague Catherine, who told me about a time she'd made a complaint a couple of years ago.

It took a couple of years, but in March the W3C finally noticed they were about to be scored on.

After working in a hospital for a couple of years, John found he came up short as a doctor.

A couple of years ago, a driver might drop off a load and pick up a new one in two hours; now the wait can be two days, said Mr. Costello.

The company says it could have several hundred locations in a couple of years.

Although he thought of the key idea in 1951, the first maser was not completed until a couple of years later.

After a couple of years of feeling stupid every day, she was ready to do something else.

Within a couple of years, the British firm GEC built Japans first nuclear reactor at Tokaimura, Ibaragi Prefecture.

Yan said the father, who has a wife has a son, a couple of years has been "playing" with his daughter.

After a couple of years, Ross grew bored with TACT and went into finance instead.

Another applicant, Rajan Kumar, said he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering a couple of years ago.

I used to smoke, but I gave it up a couple of years ago.

After a couple of years, we heard that she had developed consumption, and had also become addicted to opium.

Now Xiren was an intelligent girl, and being a couple of years older than Baoyu she already knew the facts of life.

I've worked in this office for a couple of years and I can get along with all my colleagues except two.

A couple of years later she bumped into some former colleagues who looked shocked to see her.

In just a couple of years, blogs have evolved far beyond their original format.

The knowledgeable person said building a plant from the ground up would take at least a couple of years.

For a couple of years I was the regular patient of a dermatology clinic.

His dad snuffed it a couple of years ago.

A couple of years ago, an investment banker berated me for using the word "murky" to describe the world of structured finance.

With WB, my best friend. She left her job for a couple of years and freely stay at home, planning for a second child.

After just a couple of years, Tchaikovsky wrote his first big hit, Romeo and Juliet, based on the play by Shakespeare.

A couple of years later, I owned my own piano company, and when I advertised in that area, the postcards started coming to me.

For a couple of years, it was the love that dared not speak his name.

Just a couple of years ago, Mark Zuckerberg made few public appearances.

In a couple of years, a lot of web content is going to evolve from text to video, making YouTube a much bigger asset for Google.

A few years ago he became heavily involved with an American woman he had spent a couple of years chatting to.

In my heart I honestly believed that the place would be humming within a couple of years.

He spent a couple of years submerged in nothing but the beauty of nature itself!

We figure that Jake has a couple of years to kick back and relax before he finally debunks the big bang theory.

So, to a great extent, hiring decisions are made a couple of years before students graduate.

The valleys are usually brief, lasting only a couple of years, but sometimes they stretch out much longer.

He had been struggling with bipolar disorder for a couple of years.

He only took up painting a couple of years ago, so his technique isn't up to professional standard. Can you give him some instruction.

But by the looks of Hernandez , he should be better than Berba in a couple of years or so .

Germany should postpone its fiscal consolidation for a couple of years to boost disposable income and consumption.

And I lost my dad a couple of years ago, and so, you know, it's about that.

Well, give me a couple of years and I'll show you how fluent I can be.

A couple of years ago we noticed that some of our customers had collaborated to translate our software and support pages into Japanese.

disappeared for a couple of years, she began to write books again.

This man used to talk on his mobile phone for about six hours a day, every day of his working week, for a couple of years.

A couple of years ago, I worked with a gentleman who had been selling fabric to major apparel manufacturers.

Pyongyang is said to have gained some 200, 000 subscribers since the mobile service was introduced a couple of years ago.

A couple of years ago, many developers bet their futures on XML, XSLT, Extensible HTML (XHTML), and a host of tag-based "X" languages.

The technology could be used to develop new drugs against any bacterium within a couple of years, he says.

A couple of years, network media will also be rendered explosive development of the media environment and pattern of the of's changes.

That could take a couple of years. So unless there's a new legal twist, farmers will go back to planting conventional beets next spring.

This was an innovative concept until a couple of years ago.

One of the observations I had when I work on the cattle ranch for a couple of years.

Dahlia was a couple of years older than I was.

And perhaps those cynics had reasons to be smug, after Beckham moved on loan to Italian side AC Milan a couple of years later.

He moved to Los Angeles from Springfield, Missouri, and paid his dues for a couple of years doing commercials and extra work.

Well, my older sister and her husband came for the whole weekend. You met her a couple of years ago, remember?

These commodity price hikes are likely to affect producer prices and consumer inflation within a couple of years.

After rallying for a while, the Teixeira family is sliding backwards, struggling more than it did a couple of years ago.

Jazz is an exciting initiative that we've been working on for a couple of years now.

than a loan for a couple of years as a bridge of working capital to get through this tough path.

He had a difficult first season coming into the Premiership a couple of years ago but he really understands the game now.

people were buying and selling Tulip bulbs. . . complete, mass insanity in Holland, for a couple of years there.

If I come back to your web in a couple of years time, will I find you still there?

Although solving a problem even find a special Numbers may be about to spend a couple of years, but I will not give up.

After a couple of years, the guy finally graduated & decided to further his studies in overseas.

Imagine Jamie Oliver, who exposed the shocking standards of British school lunches a couple of years ago, being put through such an ordeal.

After a couple of years, the guy finally graduated and decided to further his studies overseas.

We first saw Masdar HQ a couple of years ago, when it was aiming to be the world's first positive energy building.

A couple of years and several spiritual techniques later, I was bored with it and happened upon a book by a western guru.

You don't want to be behind clubs but we were for a couple of years with Chelsea.

But those fixes are only covered for a couple of years and some of the proposals to pay for them have already been rejected by Congress.

A couple of years ago, the fashionable term for it was "software as a service" .

And when the battery needs replacement after a couple of years, you'll still have to pay Apple $86 for a replacement.

As the boycott of South African products showed a couple of years ago, making a conscious decision of where to spend your money is felt.

So Jack persuaded the governor of Massachusetts to appoint his college room-mate to keep the seat warm for a couple of years.

Only a couple of years ago, RIM had built up an enviable degree of loyalty among consumers, employees and investors.

Having already spent a couple of years in India, I could easily recognize the tourists, and what kind of trips people were on.

In a piece I published in Time Out New York a couple of years ago, I interviewed a young lesbian whose mother was also gay.

It has restarted the delivery of daily snapshots, but the available documentation is a couple of years older.

In December, she started corresponding online with a man a couple of years older than she.

Locally incorporated banks will be expected to meet a trio of specific funding ratios within a couple of years.

A couple of years later, I read the English version of this book and not long ago, I fortunately read the Chinese version as well.

The 'We the People' petition project was proposed a couple of years ago by Macon Phillips, director of digital strategy at the White House.

A couple of years earlier, Graham had taken an equally principled 13 and courageous stand in publishing the Pentagon Papers, the U.

Teaching experiences: with a couple of years'on-the-site teaching experiences.

And I heard this story the first time a couple of years ago from a very modest family of immigrants from Kosovo in Switzerland.

But many have ended up moving their office to Sao Paulo a couple of years later, with all the upheaval that entails.

I wrote an essay a couple of years ago that touched on some of these same points.

A couple of years ago I went fishing with a very senior official who the Western press liked to attack for being evil and a thug.

E. g. : I couldn't get a permanent job so I had to live by my wits for a couple of years.

Latin America is in an anti-yanqui mood, if slightly less so than a couple of years ago.

When they save water and electricity, they have to take a couple of years to get return on that investment.

I don't think a couple of years back you would have found gender activists in the water sector to be senior managers.

A typical lawsuit now goes to trial within a couple of years, says Ms Feinstein, but that could soon stretch to five years.

If they deliver the planned fiscal tightening and structural reforms, the debt crisis could end in a couple of years.

George Mastras gave up a 10-year career as a lawyer to trek the Himalayas for a couple of years.

How happy did they expect to be in a couple of years?

Next door, the even taller Shanghai World Financial Centre will dwarf its neighbour in a couple of years.

Public taste was changing and within a couple of years the music celebrated here was old-fashioned and passed by.

But, says Mr Roscheisen, "a couple of years from now this factory is not going to look that big. "

Right behind us is the Valor balloon which we intend to fly in the skies of Venus in a couple of years from now.

Even after Subversion became reliable, it took a couple of years for all the third-party editors, IDEs, and documentation to catch up.

Wouldn't you do something kind of disgusting for a couple of years to have a chance you wouldn't otherwise have?

Not for a couple of years. What happened to her?

Unknown to Bob, our group has tackled a very similar problem a couple of years earlier on another engagement.

A couple of years ago a published paper reported that girls who lost their virginity early were less likely to finish high school.

A couple of years ago, some young women in the office took to wearing tops that bared their midriffs.

I had to clear up my driving record And that took a couple of years.

My mum cooked up the two side by side a couple of years ago. That's when I learnt to appreciate the difference.

A couple of years later, under Reagan, US officials were reviewing Chinese (People's Liberation Army) troops on the Amur River.

But if Saab is not competitive in a couple of years, he adds, "that will be that" .

I hope to get a work visa and stay there for a couple of years while i work aboard.

I hope to get a work visa and stay there for a couple of years while I work abroad.

Indonesia hasn't moved at all since it slashed rates during the global financial crisis a couple of years ago.

She taught in a missionary school for a couple of years.

It took a couple of years to gather momentum until the arrival of High Definition TV and recently, the 3DTV.

This was a National Menorah lighting from a couple of years ago.

Why lose a hard-working 25-year-old for a couple of years when you can train him internally and keep him at the coal face?

So we've been doing this for a couple of years, and that's our lab.

I must remember when ordering my bulbs next year that I dug out my colchicums and gave them to my parents a couple of years ago.

I thought, we are a good couple and will get marry in a couple of years.

On the right there is another robot doll, who you could get a couple of years ago.

For a couple of years the Pilkington boss ran the combined group from Tokyo.

He was ambassador here for a couple of years, so he ought to.

I've been checking feedback through forums and I think for the first time in a couple of years we've gone beyond expectations.

Fabrican is still a couple of years from hitting the shelves.

Only a couple of years ago, China was associated solely with low-cost manufacturing.

the reputation of Lafite, for instance, was ruined when the 1884 vintage turned mouldy after only a couple of years in bottle.

Sure, sure. . I'd been flying in that part of the world for a couple of years.

I heard that she got a face lift a couple of years ago.

A couple of years ago, Steven bought the book at the corner, but not havingany experience, he fall flat on his face.

I slowly started getting into photography a couple of years ago and I feel I have enough photos now to justify making a blog for them.

Maybe 30 years working, 10 years giving back to society, a couple of years hiatus, then start over with a new education?

A couple of years ago, a consensus emerged among reformers that councils had too much control and parents too little.

We'll check back in a couple of years!

And Tim, her son, did suggest a couple of years ago, that she needn't bother to drive the tractor anymore.

Rachel: Just think, in a couple of years we get to turn into them.

I had a very bad back a couple of years ago, and lots of people advised different things, but the one thing everyone agreed on was walking.

I hope within a year, or a couple of years, we can be back up there again.

He's also a capable finisher as the goal as the match-winner he scored for us at Blackburn a couple of years ago proves.

It's only within a couple of years that the Corp. has been an outstanding one in carrying trade.

Many clubs are riven by internal disputes , while others have not survived more than a couple of years .

A tender roast product followed but lasted only a couple of years.

No launch date has yet been disclosed, although informed industry guesses suggest a couple of years.

This doctor accidently received a strange patient. And this patient has been made for a couple of years.

When in non-volatile mode, the data will be stored safely for a couple of years.

I met him for the first time a couple of years ago.

The mortgage boom began after 2001, and within a couple of years it was in full stride.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a book about the financial crisis for the American and British markets.

As for Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" was republished a couple of years ago, and continues to sell respectably.

They dated openly as fellow employees for a couple of years.

He's a couple of years older than me. Then when I was over training in Spain, we were playing some futures tournaments together.

My husband and daughter have those same food intolerances, so we went through that steep learning curve a couple of years ago.

I hope within a year, or a couple of years, we can be up there again.

The rate of change is vastly exceeding what we were expecting even a couple of years ago.

Still, the WFP reckons it can pull back in a couple of years if the LRA is disbanded.

Low-key policies that seemed adequate a couple of years ago have struggled to keep pace with the explosive growth of trade.

Pop savant Mark Wood made a decision to change his music habits a couple of years ago when he realised he wasn't listening properly.

He is still rather green, but a couple of years in the army will make him wiser.

"A lot of clients think the valuations are the most attractive they have seen in a couple of years. "

A couple of years ago, a CNN report on Mali described the reality of the international 'free market'.

Doctors may also tell kids that their weight is a couple of years ahead of their age.

No, a couple of years ago, a few cases of drivers or hitchhikers were murdered. So we don't drive someone now.

He tried hard for a couple of years, made the arrangements and even went to England weeks early to train in the Channel before his attempt.

This should be the future and I hope in a couple of years you'll see it.

'A couple of years in investment banking on Wall Street doesn't qualify you as a New Yorker, ' says Mr. Darling.

PSF: In Pine Effect came from material over a couple of years, right?

But within a couple of years, Russia was flavour of the month.

A couple of years later there were again new ideas about extension, but this time southwards.

That's right, we're new. We nay look a little gawky now, but give us a couple of years.

That just went away for a couple of years which I think is sad because that's Liverpool but with Kenny you can see it's back.

The predicted year when summers in the Arctic would be free of sea ice has fallen from 2100 to 2050 to 2030 in a couple of years.

"Ideally you should date for a couple of years before engagement -- and not just long distance, " she says.

If you say you're enjoying sex with the same person after a couple of years you're either a liar or on something.

A couple of years ago, just after I completed my second deployment, I came close to killing myself too.

Hillary loved the program and supported it strongly when she went on the Wal-Mart board a couple of years later.

A couple of years ago there was a verry big film about the last empror (the vorbidden city) in the cinemas.

My expectation is that in a couple of years there will be thousands of mobile applications on SAP.

A couple of years ago, a Chinese company built an oil pipeline in Libya, and didn't make any profit at all.

A couple of years ago I was on a mini bus on Vietnam's Cat Ba Island, a popular tourist spot near Ha Long Bay.