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The phrase "a couple of specific" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks a noun to follow "specific." You can use it when referring to a few particular items or details, but it needs to be followed by a noun for clarity.
Example: "I have a couple of specific questions regarding the project."
Alternatives: "a few particular" or "a couple of particular".
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Here are a couple of specific suggestions.
I had a couple of specific restaurants in mind.
A couple of specific references from The Simpsons.
WALLACE: Let me ask you a couple of specific questions.
SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN: Yeah, I have a couple of specific suggestions.
I should probably also address a couple of specific comments, which have been widely linked to.
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So let me just give a couple of specifics that I'm still bouncing around with my staff; so we're not rolling out some five-point plan, but some areas where I think all of us could potentially focus.
So let me just give a couple of specifics that I'm still bouncing around with my staff so we're not rolling out some five-point plan, but some areas where I think all of us could potentially focus.
There are a couple of reasons specific to the funeral business for these price rises, however, and both say something about the market generally.
What are a couple of the specific challenges when a person both directs and acts in the same film, and in this case is also the producer?
There are a couple of other specific things that he said that he won't do, but I can't tell you what they are because I'm going to still, hopefully, talk him into doing them.
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