Sentence examples for preceding couple from inspiring English sources

The film concludes with a fascinating, if sketchy, account of Ford's own celebrity, but it can hardly compensate for the sluggish indulgence of the preceding couple of hours.

This in itself would take a lot of the wind out of the preceding couple of hours, if it hadn't mostly been taken out by Jake Gyllenhaal.

Over the past three days in Tampa, and during the preceding couple of weeks since the Ryan announcement, the Republicans have effectively carried out a product relaunch, seeking to frame their candidate in a more favorable environment.

After skirmishes between reconnaissance parties – one of which cost Parr his life – on the preceding couple of days, the men of 4th Middlesex Regiment, in defensive positions along the Mons-Condé canal, found themselves fighting off German cavalry attempts to cross it.

After birdieing the par-4 13th hole to regain a one-shot lead, Cook landed 25 feet short of the green at No. 16, a par 3. His bogey there preceding Couples's par-saving 15-footer cost him his lead.

Out of 1975 analysed PV automaticity beats, 1292 had a preceding coupling interval of ≥300 ms suggesting that these beats fell within the local excitable period of the LA.

All the preceding measures coupled with enforcement of the Stock Theft Act (1996) and other pertinent legislation have greatly eliminated commercialization of cattle raiding/rustling in Botswana, in contrast to other regions of Africa (Hendrickson et al. 1996; Kaimba et al. 2011), where the practice is widespread, sophisticated, more violent and destructive (Mkutu 2010; Schilling et al. 2012).

This was preceded a couple of weeks ago by the resignation of Laurent Potdevin, CEO of Lululemon, for creating a toxic environment in the workplace.

TO is calculated as: TO = 100* ((RR1 + RR2) -(RR-2 + RR-1)) / RR-2 + RR-1) where RR-2 and RR-1 are the two RR intervals immediately preceding the VPC coupling interval, and RR1 and RR2 are two RR intervals immediately after the compensatory pause.

Preceding it are a couple of stern and unusual injunctions.

"In the couple markets preceding this market," he said, "there were contracts done with pitchers at higher numbers and years that didn't turn out to be very good.