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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a couple men" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct form would be "a couple of men."
Example: "A couple of men were waiting outside the store."
Alternatives: "a few men" or "two men."
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I must have been crying and raising hell in the car, because a couple men in hats stopped to talk to me, and then they went in to get him".
A couple men on the steps of the Kawakib.
But this use was in an email to my entire group, not just a couple men.
I know a couple men like this, and fuuuuck, they're just the worst human beings.
But in the creative department meeting, I was talking and a couple men interrupted me at a couple different times.
A couple days and a couple men later, I ran into my best friend's foster parents at the store.
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He has to pull off a couple man-of-the-match performances against the likes of Sarries, Saints and Tigers to make a much stronger case for himself to jump ahead of the current guys.
The positioning of these figures sets up a pattern, one man, a couple, one man, a couple, and while the outer figures are nearer the viewer than the others, they all occupy the same horizontal band on the picture's surface.
Mr. Boetticher summed up the western formula as: "A man has a job to do, or a couple of men.
They are just a couple of men on a mission to keep a piece of the past alive.
A couple of men walked by, pulling a heavy wooden cart.
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