And as the day progressed, you know, a couple of hours later, another little boy came in.

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On waking a couple of hours later, he is able to joke about the experience with his team-mates.

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She then sent a friend to get them, tweeting a thanks to us a couple of hours later, saying that she had recovered half of her stolen things.

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At least two were killed a couple of hours later.

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The lawyer phoned a couple of hours later to say that everyone, from the Information Minister who had organised this whole sorry episode, to the police officers inside our house, had refused to obey what their own legal representatives had agreed to.

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Later, Facebook inadvertently exposed users to the private chats of other users for a couple hours.

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