WordNet
adj : more than one but indefinitely small in number; "a few roses"; "a couple of roses" [syn: a few(a), a couple of(a)]
Usage examples of "a couple of".
He had consumed a couple of ounces by the time I had him properly secured and his palm thoroughly swabbed with raw alcohol, and was looking significantly more relaxed than he had upon entering the room.
Lionel Brown had fractured his left leg in at least two places, broken his left wrist, and probably crushed a couple of ribs.
A short, silent black man was stoking the fire, while a couple of the teenagers rifled the packs for food.
Townsend was kicking the bejesus out of a hastily built fire, thwarting the attempts of a couple of young men to rebuild it.
The humped mound of the lodge was reflected in still water, and on the far bank she could see the agitated judderings of a couple of willow saplings, evidently in the process of being consumed.
It had occurred to Jamie a couple of days before, in the vague way that one recognizes a fact unconsciously known for some time, that Tom Christie was in love with his wife.
Jamie had forced me to take almost all the moneynot a great deal, but there was a small weight of coin at the bottom of each of the pockets tied around my waist, and a couple of proclamation notes tucked inside my stays.
I slid off the bed and shook my shoes, dislodging a small roach and a couple of silverfish who had taken shelter in the toes.
He had been at his work all day and saw little of value to show for it, save a headache behind his eyes and some not very expert surveillance on the part of a couple of presumably bored Khagggun.
Heading for one, he lost a couple of seconds, everything went dark, and he momentarily lost his bearings.
They were moving at eight thousand meters per second, just a couple of thousand meters above the ground.
He fiddled with his feeder, and munched slowly on a couple of fruit bars.
The owner of the post office gave him directions to a couple of bed-and-breakfast homes.
Maybe that accounted for the offal: a couple of osprechs were hobbled near the creek, just upstream of the house.
They were standing a couple of hundred feet above the level of the Tiefer depot.