Couple of
Couple of adjective - More than one but indefinitely small in number.
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Synonyms for Couple of
Hardly a
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Between drunkeness, lack of communication, and darkness two Austrian forces both end up thinking they are under Turkish attack; when the Turkish army showed up a couple of days later they find 10,000 casualties and the rest long gone so they take the nearby town with hardly a shot.
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