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 ".

In February 1848 it was decided that Prince Albert would acquire the remaining part of the lease on Balmoral, together with its furniture and staff, and the couple arrived for their first visit on 8 September 1848.

Games between experts are rarely decided by more than a couple of moves.

The couple developed a relationship that was sometimes long-distance in nature, and eventually decided to marry.

When they lost their first child, a boy, only eight days after birth, the couple decided to live a secluded religious life.

Since Stefan Greczek was a private and was prevented by military regulations from marrying, and the mother was too poor to support the child, the couple decided that he should be reared by family and friends.

After the war the couple decided to get a divorce, and in 1950 Lyyli Halonen married her new husband Thure Forss, who worked as an electrician and was very active in the working-class community.

However, when Asimov decided decades later to retroactively integrate the universe of his Foundation and Galactic Empire novels with that of his Robot stories, a number of changes and minor discrepancies surfaced — the character R. Daneel Olivaw was established as having existed for some 20, 000 years, with the original Robot novels featuring the character occurring not more than a couple of millennia after the early-21st century Susan Calvin short stories.

For example in Greece, if a man called Papadopoulos has a daughter, she will likely be named Papadopoulou ( if the couple have decided their offspring will take the father's surname ), since that name has a female version.

As Putnam had already sold his interest in the New York based publishing company to his cousin, Palmer, following the fire the couple decided to move to the West Coast where Putnam took up his new position as head of the editorial board of Paramount Pictures in North Hollywood.

Since the couple could not have children, they decided to benefit others, establishing the Hershey Industrial School with a Deed of Trust in 1909.

Ostracised by their families for this step, the couple decided to settle in America, where Blennerhassett in 1798 bought a ( now-eponymous ) island in the Ohio River about two miles below what is now Parkersburg, West Virginia.

After contacting Mozambican president Armando Guebuza to verify that the Mozambican government had no objections, the couple decided to invest in two villas.

Well, we had a couple of swings back and forth, nothing serious, and we decided we'd ask for a tray to be sent up to the bridge.

After John's older sister died at the age of two, his mother Mary ( née Singer ) suffered a breakdown, and the couple decided to go abroad to recover.

Then, for some unknown reason, they decided to spend several years together as an actual married couple.

By early summer the couple had decided that a divorce was necessary for her to regain sanity without affecting the lives of her husband and daughter.

As with My Favorite Husband, Lucy writers decided that the Ricardos needed an older couple to play off of.

: After a couple of years, the Tribunes editor, Captain Joseph Patterson, whose influence would later have profound effects on such strips as Terry and the Pirates and Little Orphan Annie, decided the strip should have something to appeal to women, as well, and suggested King add a baby.

After a couple years singing gospel music, the brothers decided to switch genres.

In October 1986, while Vaughan was in the London Clinic for substance abuse, Lapidus visited him ; they both decided to be together after seeing an older couple in front of them during a walk in Hyde Park.

In the same spirit, France decided to couple the query of the system, by the end-users of the national data bases, with the SIS, without causing an extra load of work for the end-user.

For many years the Pickfords had intended to vacation together and with their marriage on the rocks, the couple decided to take a second honeymoon.

The government declined to extend his visa, and the couple decided in October 1934 to move on to Norway.

Lennox and Stewart split as a couple, but decided to continue working as an experimental musical partnership, under the name Eurythmics.

Blood was said to have literally flowed in the streets, it was only after the entreaties of a couple of his Greek friends ( Midias and Calliphon ) and the pleas of the Roman Senators in his camp that Sulla decided enough was enough.