Sentence examples for instead of a couple from inspiring English sources
The elaborated procedure reduces the number of standards to a minimum by using a standard containing a mixture of ions instead of a couple of pure standards.
"John!" Reinhardt said, as though it had been a couple of years instead of a couple of hours since they had last met.
The police, realising that they had caught a couple of drag queens instead of a couple of terrorists, let them go with a warning never to return.
Hakia.com does semantic searching well.Another way to get more meaningful answers is to encourage users to formulate their searches as proper questions instead of a couple of key words.
Jay Walsh, a spokesman for the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia sites, said that the office had received an unusual number of calls — hundreds instead of a couple dozen — and more than 500 e-mails.
This time, instead of a couple of machines, Ocean brings a band with him, all in suits, whose bearded, long-haired guitarist looks like a lounge lizard but plays like a dream.
When something goes wrong, instead of a couple-of-hundred-thousand-part recall, you have a multiple-million-part recall". Tuesday's recall and sales suspension covered the following models and model years: the 2009-10 RAV4, 2009-10 Corolla, 2009-10 Matrix, 2005-10 Avalon, 2010 Highlander, 2007-10 Tundra, 2008-10 Sequoiandnd certain 2007-10 Camodelsdels.
Instead of a coupling between a former doctor and patient, we get a hurricane and a flood: the local River Lithium (a polluted successor to what Lucy Marsden knew as the River Tar) ruins the fancy neighborhood in which both Mabry and Roper live.
The implants are also being designed to have 10 times as many electrodes, so they will be able to record from thousands of neurons instead of just a couple of hundred.
The biggest challenge might be changing Android to the point where it supports modular hardware, and can remain current on phones that have a lifetime of half a decade instead of just a couple of years. .
Even if you don't want to become a complete vegetarian, you can steer your diet in that direction with a few simple substitutions, such as plant-based sources of protein — beans or tofu, for example — or fish instead of meat a couple of times a week.
