"I was looking for the ball and I took a couple of steps, " Davis said.

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However, within a couple of steps of leaving the blocks she pulled up sharply, grimacing with pain.

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Dr Johnson and Dr Spagat took the method a couple of steps further.

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After a couple of steps to the right, the jungle fades out.

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Can you address the perception that, as Savannah put it, the response has just consistently been a couple of steps behind the problem?

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It looks like an ordinary cassette adapter that you'd plug your iPod or mp3 player into and play music in your car, but it goes a couple of steps further.

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As features like sophisticated sound systems, heated seats, multiple airbags, and GPS become standard features Mercedes is going to have to keep a couple of steps ahead in its innovation.

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It had dropped a couple of steps.

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Technically, we ran out of money at the end of 2012 but Treasury took steps to push that date off for a couple of weeks.

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Back in Tbilisi, a couple of hundred activists stage a demonstration on the steps of the old parliament in support of civil rights.

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Michelle, what are some of the initial steps that a divorcing couple should take?

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