The phrase "a pair of local" is not complete and lacks context, making it difficult to determine its correctness in written English.
It could be used in contexts where you are referring to two items or entities that are local in nature, but it needs additional information to clarify its meaning.
Example: "I found a pair of local artists showcasing their work at the gallery."
Alternatives: "two local" or "a couple of local".
Ultimately, and ironically, it was a pair of local lads who allowed Saints to wrestle this game away from Hull.
The firm will be sending back two existing (antipodean) Morgan Stanley officials and hiring a pair of local staff members.
The daughter of a pair of local civil rights icons, Weaver defeated three city council members and the incumbent Walling to become the city's first female mayor.
Then they bought the house next door for $500, reselling it to a pair of local artists for a $50 profit.
Three crates were unloaded onto the beach, and Smith and a pair of local dignitaries were given the honor of opening them.
Horn players set off each song with duets, and the whole event is framed by a pair of local hunting tunes.
Suddenly, a couple of chairs began to seem like a welcome respite from the mayhem, so a pair of locals lugged their own from a nearby office building, for a test run and a bite.
And even when Norman was there, things would get strange, like the night in Bequia when we happened upon a pair of locals singing a hypnotic version of the country-and-western duet "Seven Spanish Angels," one singing the Willie Nelson part in a dead-serious bass, the other rapping Ray Charles's lines and thumping the rhythm on a plastic telephone box.
But, as always, Tashlin uses the antic mask of comedy to express the gravest of concerns — here, the atomic bomb, which he astonishingly parodies in a Tokyo hotel room with a bowl of gunpowder, some lighting and sound effects, and the unfortunately timed arrival of a pair of locals (a private eye and a baseball player).
The overall average dissimilarity among Vietnamese local varieties was 0.51, indicating that a pair of Vietnamese local varieties chosen randomly may share almost half of the alleles at the ten SSR loci.
They eat their nuptial supper - melon with glace cherries, slabs of beef with overcooked veg, in their room overlooking the bay - while a pair of waiters, local lads, stands by intrusively.
