Sentence examples for operation a couple from inspiring English sources

They got even milder after I had an operation, a couple of years ago, to implant wires in my brain and two pacemaker-type batteries in my chest.

"Because of my age," he says, and also because he is still feeling the consequences of a back operation a couple of years ago.

"He had an operation a couple of days ago and will miss the remainder of the season.

In the real operation, a couple of appropriate customer satisfaction indices should be established by the market regulator to balance the benefits of customers and power suppliers.

She went to see my wife's grandfather, who scheduled the operation for a couple of days later.

I drove through one such operation, where a couple dozen Zimbabwean laborers were building a worker's camp supervised by several Chinese men.

After he had summed up the operation in a couple of sentences, I asked him about Alice's prognosis, and he said something about "ten-percent chance".

Mr. O'Neal said he had been studying the brokerage operation for a couple of years, but added that "there are a lot of people in this business I need to meet".

Last week, I had the chance to sit down and chat with a new company called Satarii, which is a pretty small operation (just a couple of engineers in a garage) banking on crowdfunding to help push their product — the Satarii Star, an iPhone/Camera base that rotates to follow you around the room and keep you always in frame — over the last few hurdles in the journey to production.

The Galaxy, a second casino independent of Mr. Ho's operations, opened a couple of blocks away on July 4. The Galaxy, which is run by a different Hong Kong family, is much smaller than the Sands.

Sir Christopher, one of the few top European telecommunications executives to survive the industry's collapse after its recent boom, will be replaced by Arun Sarin, 48, an Indian-born American citizen who ran Vodafone's United States and Asia Pacific operations until a couple of years ago.