the last/previous couple of

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: the past two

They've lost the last/previous couple of games.

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Over the last couple of years, a male friend of ours (also married) has taken an interest in my wife. —

Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024 The manner of the victory perfectly encapsulated the grit North Korea have shown in the last couple of months. —

Neel Shelat, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024 Advertisement —Thank you, Teoscar Hernández, for bringing a certain grit and joie de vivre that the team had been missing the last couple of seasons. —

Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024 The union has hosted similar rallies in the last couple of months in Trenton, Warren and Sterling Heights, and several locals have passed strike authorization votes as the union has threatened a potential strike. —

Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for the last/previous couple of

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