Sentence examples for a couple ordering from inspiring English sources

The Portland of "Portlandia," which begins on Friday on IFC, is a city where no one can complete a task: a couple ordering chicken in a restaurant are derailed by questions about its provenance; a man trying to patronize a bookstore is stymied by its flaky owners.

Example: sitting with a couple ordering dinner, I saw the husband snap and dismiss the wife in public who was taking "too long" to make a decision over her meal.

There are a couple orders of magnitude separating the Nazis and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb.

"I think they need to improve their error rates by a couple orders of magnitude," said Joe Beal, program manager for the tape operations of the Storage Technology Corporation of Boulder, Colo., the leading independent supplier of data storage equipment.

Multiplying the problem by a couple orders of magnitude is going to be rough for ML.

It's a couple orders of magnitude less expensive than legacy HealthIT.

Read that again — there's a couple orders of magnitude difference there.

Bounds declined to be specific, but did say he expects the company to grow "a couple orders of magnitude" over the next two years.

Incandela's fatalistic "We should clean up the weak sector before we shut down for good" take is actually darker than I would expect from the precision measurement community, where they're still expecting order-of-magnitude improvements in sensitivity (at a price take a couple orders of magnitude lower than the proposed accelerators).

A gay couple ordered wedding programs.

The New Yorker, May 29 , 1937P. 11 At the Versailles Restaurant, a young couple ordered supper and started dancing.