James P. Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below three million a couple of years ago.

In his famous meeting with Nixon a couple of years ago he seemed to believe that he was as funny as Ed Wynn.

Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

A couple of years back, I occupied a Village apartment whose outer staircase contained the type of niche called a `` coffin turn ''.

It ranged from two women members who had experienced premarital pregnancy to one couple twelve years married and seemingly unable to conceive.

So, in the last couple of years, abstract expressionism has tended toward romantic suggestion -- indications of landscape or living figures.

The last couple of years the Bears management got the business from the `` Living Room Athletic Club '' when games were cut off.

And when they sell it to television in a couple of years, it can be shown without editing.

It's inevitable in this case, for the couple will be separated for, at the least, forty years.

His father's civil service commission was still active, and during Turing's childhood years his parents travelled between Hastings in England and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired Army couple.

The couple were married for 50 years and had five children: Martha ( 1828 ), Charles ( 1830 ), Mary ( 1832 ), Robert ( 1834 ), and Andrew Jr. ( 1852 ).

For a couple of years she went to a boarding school.

This new organisation showed promise of being a more efficient organisation of the railways but within a couple of years of its implementation the structure was fragmented by the privatisation process.

Over the past couple years they have added traits against Corn ear worm, and Root worm.

In subsequent years, Manço released Değmesin Yağlı Boya ( 1986 ), Sahibinden İhtiyaçtan ( 1988 ) and Darısı Başınıza ( 1989 ), all containing a couple of hit songs and demonstrating his new sound.

Brâncuși was cared for in his later years by a Romanian refugee couple.

Anson told Spiders ' manager Gus Schmelz, " He's too green to do your club much good, but I believe if I taught him what I know, I might make a pitcher out of him in a couple of years.

The idiom made a brief appearance in the UK-based DJ reggae music of the 1980s in the hit " Cockney Translation " by Smiley Culture of South London ; this was followed a couple of years later by Domenick and Peter Metro's " Cockney and Yardie ".

A couple of years ago it was bought by Droga Kolinska, a Croatian company.

According to Samsung this was because the " Demand for the old ' Square monitors ' has decreased rapidly over the last couple of years ," and " I predict that by the end of 2011, production on all 4: 3 or similar panels will be halted due to a lack of demand.

' I continued to sit and play for a couple years.

Within a couple of years, Detroit was rejuvenated and made the Finals for four of the next six years between 1961 and 1966.

In contrast, the multiregional hypothesis proposed that Homo genus contained only a single interconnected population like it does today ( not separate species ), and that its evolution took place worldwide continuously over the last couple million years.

New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully said that " Diplomatic relations with Fiji are roughly the same they have been for the last couple of years unfortunately " and that " we have had our ups and downs and unfortunately today they are down ".

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

I'm sure they were in the garage up until a couple of days ago.

A couple of weeks ago, he scored a monstrous 12 on a par-5 hole.

A generation ago, some neurologists would have also spent a couple of years working in psychiatric units and obtain a Diploma in Psychological Medicine.

... " I Want You Right Now " sounds exactly ( down to the lyrics ) like a song called " I Want You " by the Troggs, a British group who came on with a similar sex-and-raw-sound image a couple of years ago ( remember " Wild Thing "?

He explains, " We have probably three songs we wrote a couple, two, three months ago.

" The interesting part is, is that we talked to these two gentlemen a couple of weeks ago, a pre-interview, apparently that went all just fine and it made great sense, and what I read about them this afternoon, but somehow it got a little lost in translation tonight.

A couple of years ago, I met Rodney at a warehouse near his home in Redondo Beach.

Fravia asked, as a safety precaution, to the community to remove from the web every copy of his old site ( www. fravia. org ), corresponding to this period, because " The idea was to convert young crackers [...] The experiment worked only in part, hence the decision a couple of years ago to freeze that site ".

The city theatre was restored a couple of years ago.

I read a couple of days ago in the public Press an account of the departure for the seat of war of one of the most gallant Irish regiments in the world, the Inniskilling Fusiliers ; and I read how they were escorted from Enniskillen by the united bodies of the Ulster Volunteers and the National Volunteers.

" I have people stopping me in the street now saying that they watched Jewel In The Crown again a couple of months ago, and I think, ' Bloody hell, did you really?

And I spoke to them a couple of months ago.

Shortly after, a couple named Ralph and Shirley Mudge arrive, saying they left a little girl here eleven years ago and have come back for her.

I re-scored these psyche / surf films that were filmed at the Barbican a couple of years ago and worked on it in the studio for about 8 months.

DNA analysis reveals eastern freshwater cod of the Clarence River system went through a calamitous bottleneck a couple of thousand years ago, in which the majority of the population perished.

* " My mom bought me a memory pillow a couple of years ago ...

The Internet now has a wide range of chatterbots but they are no more advanced, in terms of plausibility as conversationalists, than the systems of forty years ago and most users tire of them after a couple of exchanges.

Miko and Fubuki investigate and find out that there's actually a love story behind it, for the flutes belonged to a betrothed couple ( Kyoshiro and Shanahime ) 400 years ago but treachery got in the way, so their love was never realized.

He became a Professor a couple of years ago.

Up until a couple of years ago, I didn't own one myself '.