Tin in hand, I crossed a couple of borders from Poland, finding myself in the popular French restaurant Pret a Manger.
Hence the words of a couple of border patrolmen, ripe with condescension, as a handful of illegal immigrants elude them: **{:.break one} ** "How many got away?" "Three".
But Mr. Annan brushed aside Lebanese objections, saying there were only a couple of border violations by Israel and they would be cleared up swiftly.
Like many former colonies, it has made fitful progress as an independent nation: its recent history contains a failed attempt at revolutionary socialism, an abortive merger with Senegal, a couple of border wars, three coups, and one long military dictatorship.
What's occurin' There's no shortage of of football press conferences being staged ahead of the weekend's action and a couple could border on the incendiery, compared to the usual snoozefests punctuated by news of niggles and strains picked up by assorted players during training.
Barragán and Ruanova were both born and raised in the city and describe themselves as a couple of "border rats": fully bilingual, as comfortable with the minutiae of Mexican culture as they are with that of the U.S.
It's almost twice the length of Manhattan (13 miles) and enough distance to cross a couple of national borders in Europe. .
This was not just about a couple of obscure border enclaves, nor even, really, about Georgia.
Later I met a couple pulling a border collie on a sled on a specially marked canine trail, and wished Lou and Rusty could be there.
On the Mexican side of the Santa Teresa border crossing, just outside El Paso, we hopped into a white van that was waiting for us and drove right past a couple of disinterested border guards.
