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Let me also make another general observation, and I referred to this a couple of times during my hearing.
Mrs. Vance called a couple of times wondering where he is.
I'm only doing this a couple of times, though.
You may recall that I've done this a couple of times.
A couple of times a year, christine.
Police investigated a couple of times.
We've gone out a couple of times.
I tried this a couple of times and looked at this problem and gave up on it.