How to Use the last/previous couple of in a Sentence
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Well, that is one of the things that has changed in the last couple of years.
— 5 Things Podcast Transcript, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023 -
Look at all the lies he's told over the last couple of weeks.
— Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023 -
The storm that’s been hitting the Earth the last couple of days has reached G5.
— Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 May 2024 -
That area has come on in leaps and bounds in the last couple of years.
— Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024 -
Over the last couple of months, the race has been at a standstill.
— Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023 -
Jones has not been the same player in the last couple of years, though.
— Ryan Morik, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023 -
Just start out, what have our strikes achieved over the last couple of days?
— ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024 -
Sure, the Cowboys have won a lot of games over the last couple of years, and it’s been fun.
— Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 July 2023 -
And the switch has been happening for the last couple of years.
— Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023 -
The one that’s been coming up the most in the last couple of weeks is on the inpatient side.
— Chantelle Lee, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024 -
He’s spent far too long for the last couple of years being sad.
— Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024 -
Will there be a theme to it, like the previous couple of tours?
— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024 -
The race was tight and Huske was trailing until the last couple of mighty strokes.
— Rick Maese, Washington Post, 31 July 2024 -
And that is something that Ida’s taken me to task for a lot over the last couple of years.
— Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023 -
But it’s been a fun story to tell at parties the last couple of nights.
— Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023 -
With [Nathan’s] new sobriety over the last couple of years, that was a big shift on the whole group.
— Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024 -
And so that's really been the target of a lot of these attacks in the last couple of years.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024 -
But it's been rising steadily over the last couple of years.
— Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2024 -
Over the last couple of years, Ngannou switched over to the sweet science: boxing.
— Patrick Snell, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024 -
And that became a huge firestorm of criticism for Google over the last couple of weeks.
— Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024 -
Teachers over the last couple of years have gone on wildcat strikes.
— Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023 -
For me, The Masked Singer is really the glue that held me together for the last couple of months.
— Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023 -
Sorry for the sporadic posting the last couple of months.
— Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023 -
The cause is the same as the last couple of delays: a leak of helium from the craft’s service module.
— Melvin Backman, Quartz, 22 May 2024 -
Michigan has made the playoff the last couple of years by beating Ohio State.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023 -
It’s only been in the last couple of years that the river has become a problem.
— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023 -
Marvel has had a lot of high-profile failures over the last couple of years.
— Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2024 -
Through its proxies, Iran has attacked the United States more than 150 times in the last couple of months.
— Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 27 Jan. 2024 -
Whomever Intel chooses, the new CEO will need time to make up for the more than $20 billion of revenue lost to competitors over the last couple of years.
— Ryan Gould, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024 -
Voedisch, who has been in practice for decades, says the phenomenon among women really started to take off just in the last couple of years.
— Akshay Syal, M.d., NBC News, 10 Nov. 2024
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