Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Assembly on the other hand met only four times in each prytany ( tenth part of the year , i.e. a bit longer than a month ) ; extra meetings could no doubt be called ( though the word usually taken to refer to such meetings , sunkletos , may just mean a meeting called at short notice ) . |
| 2 | Once the great white hope of our consumer electronics industry , Amstrad lost £15.2m in the six months to December , a far cry from the £160m profits made only four years ago . |
| 3 | All the expeditions to Antarctica before 1969 had together found only four meteorites . |
| 4 | But the campaigners found only four fridges which were on the list of ozone-friendly household appliances . |
| 5 | It occurred exactly four weeks after the frogs . |
| 6 | The harassment occurred just four months after the sixteen-year-old , from Lurgantarry , started her first job as a YTP trainee at workshop in Co Armagh , the hearing heard . |
| 7 | Earnings per employee rose over four times between 1975 and 1982 , while the cost of living index rose only three times . |
| 8 | The 19-year-old from Inverurie has won seven world ranking titles and suffered only four defeats in the past ten months . |
| 9 | His votes are included in the 5.2 quotas received by UUUC candidates at Stage I but in spite of this UUUC secured only four seats and supplied the runner up , Oliver ( Un ) . |
| 10 | Sad to say he OD 'd about four years later … ’ |
| 11 | The Bull Ring , completed by Laing Developments in 1964 , rammed together four levels of shopping , a market hall , a multi-storey car park , an office block , a bus station and a banqueting suite all in one vast complex . |
| 12 | The Yugoslav media ( which claimed only four fatalities from these incidents ) said that police had acted in self defence after demonstrators fired on them with automatic weapons . |
| 13 | We sign , ’ he told reporters as he arrived nearly four hours after the scheduled start of the talks . |
| 14 | Mr Izetbegovic arrived nearly four hours after the scheduled start of the talks and told reporters it was ‘ now up to the international community ’ — a reference to UN Security Council or United States pressure on Serbs to sign . |
| 15 | This happened maybe four times . |
| 16 | Leeds ' first four games have produced 15 goals and seven points and they are within sight of surprise leaders QPR — while Liverpool have conceded six goals and collected just four points . |
| 17 | Sir John Arundell , who built it , inherited a fortune from his father , also Sir John , who had lived during five reigns and served under four monarchs . |
| 18 | The initiative has a large core project located at London Business School , a group of smaller research teams forming a supplementary core , and then a group of projects arranged around four themes : Finance , Skills , Product Markets and Collaboration . |
| 19 | After recovering from a virus infection , Veronique Marot ( 35:57 ) knocked almost four minutes off the course record in winning the Huddersfield Road Runners 10K … |
| 20 | ‘ We met about four years ago . |
| 21 | His name was Mr Frankland , and he lived about four miles to the south of the Hall . |
| 22 | FOUR Warwickshire bowlers shared 244 wickets last summer , yet their batsmen delivered only four centuries . |
| 23 | The second set took just 24 minutes as Ivanisevic lost only four points on serve , banged down eight aces and broke Sampras 's serve twice . |
| 24 | Mobberley lost only four wickets and needed only 31 overs to score the runs on a low-scoring weekend . |
| 25 | In that context , he said , the Budget should be ‘ considered alongside the Autumn Statement I delivered just four months ago ’ . |
| 26 | Champion hit as four shots frittered away US MASTERS GOLF Michael Williams at Augusta |
| 27 | Larry Hagman haggled almost four times his own fee to re-enrol after the ( un-mortal ) shooting . |
| 28 | Essentially , the boom revolved around four figures who rapidly became international celebrities — Cortázar , Fuentes , García Márquez and Vargas Llosa — and , in the wake of their success , other writers such as Lezama Lima , Donoso and Cabrera Infante came to prominence . |
| 29 | Alicia died only four years after the Royal Fort was ‘ completed ’ and Thomas seems never to hade have the heart to complete a work that breathes an air of happy domesticity . |
| 30 | When , in May 1949 , a UN resolution recommending the re-establishment of full diplomatic relations with Spain fell only four votes short of achieving the requisite two-thirds majority , Franco interpreted this as vindicating his stance . |