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since a couple of days vs since couple of days

Both phrases are incorrect. The correct phrase is 'for a couple of days.' 'For' is used to indicate a period of time, while 'since' is used to indicate a specific point in time.

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Last updated: October 11, 2024 • 13224 views

since a couple of days

This phrase is incorrect. 'Since' is used to refer to a specific point in time, not a period of time.

The correct phrase should be 'for a couple of days' to indicate a period of time.

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Last updated: November 11, 2024

Oct 25, 2024 ... Since a couple of days, this guy is buying 1M unit of Tritium for his FC in deep space (pic), poor fella seems out of gas. Misc.
Sep 1, 2024 ... It seems to me that push notification is not working since a couple of days ago. I'm on OH 4.2.1, the cloud is online and I can see the push notification ...
Oct 17, 2020 ... Since a couple of days ago people cannot send me emails from their gmail accounts to any of my email addresses at zurga.com.
Aug 2, 2024 ... I am facing WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR since a couple of days and can't seem to figure out how to solve it? The first time I faced this issue ...
May 2, 2024 ... Back home since a couple of days after our European Spring tour. I really would like to express our gratitude as much as I can, conscious and aware of the ...
Sep 19, 2023 ... Since a couple of days, I miss the Energy tab below, giving me insights into the Power consumption of various devices and overall by a power meter.
Feb 23, 2020 ... Since a couple of days I am experiencing build failures. I cannot imagine what's wrong, since the project builds correctly on my own machine.
Oct 27, 2019 ... The album is out since a couple of days only and we've been totally overwhelmed by your response so far.... Thank you guys, so much.
The phrase 'since a couple of days' is correct and can usually be used in written English to describe a time frame.
Hi,since a couple of days, we are having some trouble with the network connectivity of new virtual machines.Basically, this is what we've got:A vSphere 4.1 ...

Alternatives:

for a couple of days
for the past couple of days
for a few days
for two days
for a short period

since couple of days

This phrase is also incorrect. 'Since' should be followed by a specific point in time, not a period of time.

The correct phrase should be 'for a couple of days' to indicate a period of time.

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Last updated: November 11, 2024

Aug 29, 2024 ... All bulbs became unresponsive / shown as not reachable in the bridge since couple of days without any further doing. I have automatic updates active.
Jun 13, 2023 ... Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days · 1. Does this answer your question? · 2. I mean, there is mention of Charcoal, which is doing a ...
Jul 10, 2022 ... Upward of 300 since couple of days. AskPune. r/pune - What's up with the AQI ...
... » [SOLVED] Why new "*-debug" packages are coming since couple of days? Pages: 1. #1 2024-02-20 22:35:05. papavlos: Member: Registered: 2017-09-23: Posts ...
Hi since couple of days we have issue with hanging Task in vcenter - Ping STorage Arrays Status 50%. In SRM Status of Array Managers is green.
Error 552, website down since couple of days · Hosting Support · abhelou May 5, 2024, 6:37am 1. Website URL. trucept.pro. Error Message. Contact your ...
Random DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN and internet disconnections since couple of days. Post by artik » Thu May 16, 2019 11:00 am. I'm facing an issue under ...
Aug 9, 2019 ... Installation fails on docker alpine since couple of days #4823. Closed. BorntraegerMarc opened this issue on Aug 9, 2019 · 13 comments. Closed ...
Jun 19, 2015 ... Good day, I'm running into an issue since couple of days, I just can't work it out. I have an SRX650 cluster connected to two Cisco Catalyst ...
I need to refresh or the sync app again to make this go away. Along with the these, the Appsheet editor seems to be working slow since couple of days.

Alternatives:

for a couple of days
for the past couple of days
for a few days
for two days
for a short period

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