He could push the door open a couple of inches.

He didn't miss by more than a couple of inches.

He reached down and opened the door a couple of inches.

The water was a couple of inches below where it had been.

Once past the first couple of wet inches, the ground was quite easy to move.

"Just move your hand a couple of inches and put it down again."

"It was just a couple of inches away from going in."

There were already a couple of inches on the streets.

When we first sat down, there were a couple of inches between us.

We only have a couple of inches up here right now.