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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 • 13181 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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