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To me, "It happened a couple of times" means a speaker has ruled out "it happened twice" since to say so would be too precise a statement: the event in question is somewhat loosely defined and smart people will disagree whether the 3rd, 4th or 5th occurrences count. We can all get behind the idea that at least two events unequivocally took place ("We've had a couple nice Presidents"), and there's a general consensus that there's not a whole lot more than that, if any.