Sentence examples for expect a couple of from inspiring English sources

"We expect a couple of thousand people," Mr. Delano said.

"I expect a couple of guys to go low tomorrow, including myself," Parnevik said.

Expect a couple of other clubs to come in for Butland, I say.

Expect a couple of loans – and Allardyce to make every effort to offload his £8m winger Jeremain Lens.

It can expect a couple of years to put things right before any fine is enforced, and each step in the procedure has to be endorsed by the EU's Council of Ministers.

Most people can expect a couple of unpleasant years of incapacity at the end of their lives, but that period now typically arrives when they reach their mid-to-late 70s or even their 80s, rather than their 60s.

"They were expecting a couple of hundred people," Boehner recalls.

He added that he expected a couple of negotiating sessions during spring training.

"We expected a couple of hundred downloads by the end of the first year.

"Honestly, I would have expected a couple of thousand people to respond," he said, describing his group's $50,000 investment in the film as "grass-roots venture capital that is already beginning to pay dividends".

The scale of the economic disaster that has swept across much of southern Europe is worse than even most of the pessimists expected a couple of years ago, but the euro has survived so far, whereas a year ago many did not expect that to happen.