Sentence examples for couple of standards from inspiring English sources

A beautiful young singer, as humbled as everyone else watching, asks if she can join the guitarist and sings a couple of standards.

"Everybody had a piano in their house, whether they were musicians or not". By the age of nine he began to immerse himself in jazz, and even guested as a singer with a local big band ("I was this weird, talented kid who sang a couple of standards and a Beatles song, Oh Darling").

With the bassist Mike McGuirk and the drummer Rudy Royston, on Wednesday the band played a couple of standards — a slow "Where or When," with a long, expressive trumpet solo, and "Try a Little Tenderness," with a gradual, inventive wind-up toward the core of the song.

Buddy Greco swings his way through a couple of standards including his take on The Lady Is A Tramp.

They followed with Ornette Coleman's "Turnaround," and then, almost as a palate cleanser, to a couple of standards, "Darn That Dream" and "I Remember You," which they playfully unraveled like balls of yarn.

They assess all FPS, other standards where hospitals are low and a couple of standards randomly selected.

A couple of standard cuts were made in Act II, without fatal effect.

We're now well fed after a couple of standard sandwiches.

Indeed, the Wingfield family (closely based on Williams's own) are so impoverished that they appear to possess nothing other than a couple of standard lamps and a sad box of coloured tissue paper to liven the place up.

For that matter, any particular colleague or boss or report might be hampered by a spousal relationship that's a couple of standard deviations below the mean, as they say.

So wedded are the Conservatives to the notion of a nation made up of single-income, two-parent fami lies, that they had fallen into an ob vious trap, failing to notice that this beloved Tory icon would be treat ed more harshly under their pro posals than a couple of standard-rate taxpayers bringing in £80,000.