Sentence examples for a couple pages from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a couple pages" is not entirely correct in standard written English; it should be "a couple of pages." You can use it when referring to a small number of pages, typically in informal contexts.

Example: "I need to read a couple of pages before I can discuss the book."
Alternatives: "a few pages" or "two or three pages."

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Open it up, read a couple pages, if it grabs you — boom — take it home.

That, or upload a couple pages of HTML.

Surf a couple pages of results to get the lay of the land – functionality, price, providers and so forth.

Note that an NDA is usually only a couple pages long and is focused on protecting important information, such as code, algorithms, strategies, sales lists and so on.

I take the first 30 minutes and read a couple pages of the Bible and my current book.

In the end the bouncers let me off in exchange for a couple pages ripped from the notebook and I wander back into the club.

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"At least write a couple of pages, three pages," said Jon O. Newman, a judge on the Second Circuit.

It went from a couple of pages to more than 20 pages.

The city's forward-thinking attorney, Eric Ashley, trimmed the coalition's 28-page ordinance proposal down to a couple of pages.

On a bad day, if you took literary biography out of the books pages, you might be lucky to get a couple of pages of A4.

Towards the end he repeats himself a tiny bit, and the odd chapter feels padded – a couple of pages of reasonably well-known literary pseudonyms here; a couple of pages of name-changing fugitives from justice there.

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