1.   For the last couple of weeks, I had two posters in my windows, facing on to a fairly busy street.

2.   In the last couple of years, the issue has cropped up regularly.

3.   It had become a familiar sound over the last couple of days.

4.   It had been creeping up on me during the last couple of days.

5.   Over the last couple of Decades, managing such funds has become a pretty well perfected science.

6.   The Ottowa-based company has made a dramatic comeback from the brink of financial disaster the last couple of years.

7.   Though sharply reduced in the last couple of years, federal budget deficits continue.

8.   Then in the last couple of years, the movement for democracy began to heat up.

9.   If we can reproduce the form we have shown in the last couple of months we will be successful.

10.   We shall have to do three old ones from the last couple of years and get the costumes and sets from Vienna as usual.