31.   I spent a couple of hours driving one this week, and found it to be a credible new entry.

32.   I spent a couple of days going to some of the sites and found I could only stand it for a short period of time.

33.   In most cases, children are given general anesthesia and spend a couple of days in the hospital.

34.   In my suburban Detroit community, spending a couple of weeks in the Holy Land was almost a rite of passage.

35.   Knowles got his first real taste of Internet publishing when he spent a couple of months contributing movie snippets to Matt Drudge, the online political columnist.

36.   Last May I spent a couple of weeks in Chicago on business.

37.   Later, they spent a couple of hours studying and building their own telescopes.

38.   Mario Biaggi, a former congressman who spent a couple of years in jail for corruption, fell into all three categories.

39.   Not a bad group of films to spend a couple of evenings viewing on video.

40.   Of course, The Stilt never spent a couple of summers in Birmingham trying to hit a curve ball.