Example sentences of "[prep] four [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten people were picked up after four hours in the water , and the eleventh after five hours . |
| 2 | After four bombs in less than twenty four hours , the message from British Rail tonight is one of vigilance . |
| 3 | The first-to-ten world title battle between the maverick American and the Russian is now all square after four games in Przno , Yugoslavia . |
| 4 | England have taken a well-earned break after four games in the past three weeks , and with Platt proving his recovery from an ankle injury with the opening goal against Brazil on Sunday in Washington , manager Graham Taylor should be able to pick from a full squad . |
| 5 | The 29 rowdy rugger toffs were returning home after four wins in a five-match tour of Canada . |
| 6 | Not even when Pam Wright went 4-up on me after four holes in the final of the Scottish at Troon did I feel in any danger . " |
| 7 | After four years in the Royal Artillery , Dignam was invalided out of the army and went straight to the Arts Theatre , where he was a delightfully tongue-in-cheek Shavian Angel and a foxy Claudius , proving Stanislavsky 's adage , as Agrippa in the Anthony Quayle/Edith Evans Antony and Cleopatra , that there are ‘ no small parts ’ . |
| 8 | After four years in the explosives division , his management potential had been spotted and moves were made to launch him on a management development programme of rotation to broaden his experience . |
| 9 | Later , after four years in detention during the Mau Mau Emergency , he worked for an Indian workshop in Nairobi establishing himself as the pioneer manufacturer of bicycle carriers and foreguards . |
| 10 | Jon Solly is alive , well and back after four years in the wilderness . |
| 11 | After four years in Kent , we were moved by my company back to Scotland . |
| 12 | Not that Alice cared about warmth , not even after four years in her mother 's warm house . |
| 13 | In Land elections in Hesse on Jan. 20 the CDU-FDP coalition lost its two-seat majority after four years in power [ see p. 35208 for April 1987 Land election and p. 36531 for March 1989 Hesse local elections ] . |
| 14 | After four washes in phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.2 , containing 0.05% Tween 20 , the strips were individually incubated in appropriate peroxidase conjugated anti-human IgM , IgG , or IgA or anti mouse IgG and developed . |
| 15 | Just as God foretold ( Genesis 15:13–14 ) , after four centuries in a foreign land ( from the 18th century BC to about 1300 or 1290 BC ) Israel is free . |
| 16 | The resignation of the organisation 's chief scientist last week after four months in the post has fuelled these fears . |
| 17 | Along with many of the other detainees Teo made a televised " confession " of her role in the conspiracy and was released after four months in detention . |
| 18 | After four months in the West End , Crawford was ordered by doctors to take a twelve-day rest to recover from a severe back strain , but he returned in time to appear in front of Prince Charles . |
| 19 | After four months in Hong Kong , Miller returned to Cappielow to discover that Morton had only ten players on their books . |
| 20 | An inscribed silver salver was given to previous league secretary John Pritchard who retired after four seasons in the job . |
| 21 | The group is made up of four stars in the shape of a cross . |
| 22 | The case of four islands in the Kuriles is a bit different . |
| 23 | The conviction of four students in May had prompted a protest by 169 prominent intellectuals . |
| 24 | A fall in the price of land and in the value of rents meant that the reigns of William and Anne were difficult times for the landed classes , and their plight was exacerbated by the fact that they were being hit by a tax on land of four shillings in the pound to finance the wars against France . |
| 25 | The site 's location in the heart of a built-up area also presented developers with other headaches to overcome including the location of four pubs in the immediate vicinity . |
| 26 | Bruce Babbitt , the interior secretary , stepped into this fetid atmosphere on April 30th when he chaired the first of four meetings in the west to hear testimony about grazing on federal land . |
| 27 | In all , he spent the best part of four hours in the water , before meeting up at Gloucester Cathedral with the Bishop of Tewkesbury ( above ) , who had walked the 10 miles along the river bank ( a much more sensible idea ) , the culmination of a week-long pilgrimage around his diocese . |
| 28 | The Railways Act of 1921 called for the establishment of four groups in Britain . |
| 29 | Point 3 relates to lines such as the following , from Shakespeare 's " sonnet XXIII " : Such lines , Cable argues , show four rising degrees of stress ( on the boldened syllables ) , and such adjacent increase indicates , in his view , that the metre is foot-based , since the string in question consists of four syllables in which the even-numbered ones are stronger than their neighbours . |
| 30 | The largest collection is of four works in a manuscript of the British Library famous , amongst other things , for a collection of English medieval lyrics it contains , British Library MS Harley 2253 ( a facsimile of this manuscript has been published by the Early English Text Society , Original Series no.255 ) . |