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• 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
• 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
• The storm that’s been hitting the Earth the last couple of days has reached G5.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 May 2024
• That area has come on in leaps and bounds in the last couple of years.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
• 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
• Charlotte’s been a great track for me the last couple of years.
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2025
• Just start out, what have our strikes achieved over the last couple of days?
  — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• Sure, the Cowboys have won a lot of games over the last couple of years, and it’s been fun.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• 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
• Both have been tossed over the side in the last couple of weeks, as the 10-year Treasury rate dropped.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
• And the switch has been happening for the last couple of years.
  — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 22 June 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
• Two things that have changed in the last couple of decades are contributing to the threat.
  — Ignacio Calderon, USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 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
• He’s spent far too long for the last couple of years being sad.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
• Will there be a theme to it, like the previous couple of tours?
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2024
• The race was tight and Huske was trailing until the last couple of mighty strokes.
  — Rick Maese, Washington Post, 31 July 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
• But it’s been a fun story to tell at parties the last couple of nights.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
• 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
• Nothing of the sort has been publicly released in the last couple of weeks.
  — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 18 Apr. 2025
• The Bears have had entirely too much turnover on the line over the last couple of seasons.
  — Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2025
• 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
• But it's been rising steadily over the last couple of years.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 29 Jan. 2024
• To see the great momentum over the last couple of months has been just so amazing.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 June 2025
• Over the last couple of years, Ngannou switched over to the sweet science: boxing.
  — Patrick Snell, CNN, 18 Oct. 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
• He’s spent the last couple of weeks taking live at-bats and running the bases at the team’s player development facility in Tampa.
  — Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 11 June 2025