1.   A couple of cookies are as good as a couple of aspirin.

2.   All I had in the freezer was a couple of frozen pizzas.

3.   Here are a couple of examples of people who made some interesting career changes.

4.   In some places the path is only a couple of feet wide.

5.   Inside were a couple of building-society account books and a few bank notes.

6.   It was a couple of hours before I could get back to Eleanor Darcy.

7.   Nothing came along immediately and ahead were a couple of lean years.

8.   One battered Land-Rover stood outside the post office, and leaning against the schoolhouse wall were a couple of bicycles.

9.   The curtains should be a couple of inches clear of the floor.

10.   The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore.