31.   An elderly couple was hit by a train while crossing the tracks to pick oranges in western Japan on Thursday morning, police said.

32.   Cuba set the tone in a first inning by hitting a couple of shots into the stands and thumping the first U.S. batter in the shoulder.

33.   He hit a couple of good passing shots.

34.   He also lost his cool, hitting a couple of balls into the rafters in frustration and drawing a warning from chair umpire Mohammed Lahyany.

35.   I hit a couple of good returns and that was the chance.

36.   If they had just hit a couple of more free throws, who knows?

37.   I hit a couple of aces today but not many.

38.   It helped when I hit a couple of shots early.

39.   The Palestinians said the couple was hit by machine gun fire from Israeli tanks.

40.   The two batsmen leapfrogged each other throughout the morning with Hayden hitting a couple of pull shots off Caddick.