1. couple
Did you see that couple in matching outfits just now? How tasteless!
A very elderly couple is having an elegant dinner to celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary.
A couple more!
Exploring and populating the newly discovered continent happened over the course of a couple of centuries.
You wake up lying on the rocky floor of a dark cave. A little light filters down from above. You can just make out a couple of openings leading away from the cave. What do you do now?
Tomorrow, the car needs to go to the garage for a big service. It'll probably set me back a couple of hundred euros.
This couple approaches humor so dryly that enormous chains of jokes will blossom without an iota of laughter.
It seems as it was a shot-gun wedding so they're having a quiet wedding with only family and a couple of friends from university invited.
The fat woman, the young couple, the sleeping Indian and the tall man in black, but now skin and flesh and hair had disappeared, and empty eye sockets stared from gleaming white skulls.
The couple who came on a shrine visit, Kouji Oonishi (40) and his wife Yukie (34) said, "We prayed that our child would grow up healthily."
Mr. and Mrs. Smith are the sort of couple who don't go out much in the evenings.
A British research group predicted that more couples will divorce and re-marry in future.
On May 18, a young Japanese couple was arrested after their one-year-old baby was found wrapped in a plastic bag and dumped in a gutter.
But otter hunting is no "mug's game." Let it be known that it requires more than a few couple of hounds and a brace or so of terriers to kill an otter.
At the last office I went to I ran out of work after a couple of hours, which made the rest of the day rather boring.
2. a few
I met a few friends.
a few apples
Give me a few examples
I still have got a few minutes.
They bought a few oranges
Krystyna, could you buy me a few eggs?
I met a few of the other employees at my interview.
Only a few books were damaged in the fire.
I have a few cars: Porshe, Ferrari, Suzuki and Fiat 126p.
I've bought a few books
I have still got a few minutes. (Mam jeszcze kilka minut.)
I'm going to Paris in a few days.
I need a few boxes of matches
I've seen a few cars I liked.
There are a few things I don't like about her.
3. some
We bought some fruits.
It would be presumptuous to call myself his replacement, but I could offer some guidance.
What are some high cholesterol foods that you can easily avoid eating?
I think it's a shame that some foreign language teachers were able to graduate from college without ever having studied with a native speaker.
As a prank, some students let three goats loose inside their school after painting the numbers 1, 2 and 4 on the sides of the goats. The teachers spent most of the day looking for goat number 3.
Some students neglect their studies in favor of sports.
Some Italian fashion designers are saying that white bathing suits will catch on this year.
While some private and church schools in America have uniforms, they are not common.
Some non-native speakers think they speak the language better than native speakers.
Yesterday my bicycle was stolen while I was doing some shopping.
Though I mainly work as a studio musician, I do a little busking to make some extra money.
The police conducted an offensive against some drug dealers.
My love for you won't let me tell you everything. Some things are better left unsaid.
In order to get some information about Japanese economic problems, you'll find this book very useful.
Every person has a psychological need to feel that what he does is of some importance.