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“We’d need at least a couple inches of rain to pull us out of high fire season, and the vegetation is just so dry right now,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

A couple inches of rainfall, with the highest totals potentially over the Olympic Peninsula, is expected on Thursday, Mazurkiewicz said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 10, 2023

“If you get two feet of rain, 10 percent is a couple inches of rain,” Dr. Reed said — enough to cause substantially more damage in vulnerable places.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2022

To the east, even parts of the Shenandoah Valley saw a coating to a couple inches of snow, mainly on grassy areas.

From Washington Post • Apr. 18, 2022

She stood motionless a couple inches from the bottom of the bed.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx