How to Use the last/previous couple of in a Sentence

the last/previous couple of

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  • Look at all the lies he's told over the last couple of weeks.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • There was a lot of change to this team over the last couple of months.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • That area has come on in leaps and bounds in the last couple of years.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Just start out, what have our strikes achieved over the last couple of days?
    — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Well, that is one of the things that has changed in the last couple of years.
    — 5 Things Podcast Transcript, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
  • He’s spent far too long for the last couple of years being sad.
    — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Charlotte’s been a great track for me the last couple of years.
    — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2025
  • Over the last couple of months, the race has been at a standstill.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Jones has not been the same player in the last couple of years, though.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Yet he’s only seen one truck go through the area in the last couple of days.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 7 Jan. 2025
  • And the switch has been happening for the last couple of years.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
  • Will there be a theme to it, like the previous couple of tours?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
  • Teachers over the last couple of years have gone on wildcat strikes.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Two things that have changed in the last couple of decades are contributing to the threat.
    — Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Nothing of the sort has been publicly released in the last couple of weeks.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Rodgers has received a lot of criticism over the last couple of years.
    — Evan Massey, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • To see the great momentum over the last couple of months has been just so amazing.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 June 2025
  • Marvel has had a lot of high-profile failures over the last couple of years.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Has anyone reached out over the last couple of months suspecting you guys were on the show?
    — Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Numerous restaurants and cafes have opened in the same area over the last couple of years.
    — Tyler Williams, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 July 2025
  • Over the last couple of years, a mystery has been brewing in this small mountain town.
    — Dara Kerr, NPR, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The race was tight and Huske was trailing until the last couple of mighty strokes.
    — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
  • But the Dodgers — as has so often been the case over the last couple of weeks — failed to tack on.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The one that’s been coming up the most in the last couple of weeks is on the inpatient side.
    — Chantelle Lee, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
  • And that is something that Ida’s taken me to task for a lot over the last couple of years.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2023
  • And so that's really been the target of a lot of these attacks in the last couple of years.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The storm that’s been hitting the Earth the last couple of days has reached G5.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 May 2024
  • And that became a huge firestorm of criticism for Google over the last couple of weeks.
    — Michael Calore Lauren Goode, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2024
  • With [Nathan’s] new sobriety over the last couple of years, that was a big shift on the whole group.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The Bears have had entirely too much turnover on the line over the last couple of seasons.
    — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2025

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