Example sentences of "about four [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edingley are sending about four and are sending about four but er as many as like want to go . |
| 2 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 3 | Maggie came hurrying down the stairs , followed by two little boys of about four and three . |
| 4 | Geoff Dowling , race secretary and one-time competitor ( but unfortunately never winner ) , told me that five and a half hours was reasonable but the first-class walkers could be expected about four and a half hours after the start . |
| 5 | He also told them that a thin palladium wire , only ¼ inch in diameter and an inch long , had reached the boiling point of water within a few minutes , that the wire produced about 26 watts of energy per cm 3 , ‘ about four and a half times what we put into it ’ and that in an early stage of the experiments the apparatus suddenly heated up to an estimated 5000 degrees , vaporising a block of palladium , destroying a fume cupboard and damaging the concrete floor . |
| 6 | The Russia of 1880 lifted less than 1.5 per cent of Europe 's coal ; to the greatly enlarged production of 1900 she contributed 3.6 per cent — about four and a half times as much . |
| 7 | The battery takes about four and a half hours to charge . |
| 8 | Roy , who was about four and had n't been used to drinking out of a glass , took a bite at his and broke a chunk out of it . |
| 9 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 10 | The cost was over three thousand pounds , which is a considerable sum today , but was then worth about four and a half thousand in today 's terms . |
| 11 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 12 | ‘ Tides carrying us , we 're still making about four and a half knots over the ground . |
| 13 | And indeed there are some who make think that the County Council has been too generous in that the reduction from the hundred percent migration in four districts , er amounts only to somewhere about four and a half er thousand dwellings . |
| 14 | Erm , we have about four and a half percent to five percent of the company left . |
| 15 | Erm , I personally prefer litres , but I transmit that the four and half litres about four and a half litres |
| 16 | About four and a half |
| 17 | I reckon about four and a half . |
| 18 | Edingley are sending about four and are sending about four but er as many as like want to go . |
| 19 | The French Officer gets us all out of the ditch and the march continues for about four or five hours , then , during a rest in the wood , I fall asleep , my face among the leaves reminding me of my home in Scotland . |
| 20 | Straggling behind her was a small child , about four or five , O could n't see what sex the child was . |
| 21 | This occurs about four or five weeks after apparent recovery and results in all four legs suddenly swelling up tremendously and the development of small haemorrhagic spots on the lips . |
| 22 | Normally a solemn and serious part of the Catholic liturgy of the Mass , on this occasion its solemnity and seriousness were somewhat dented by the sudden arrival of a very pretty little girl of about four or five , who ran down the centre aisle towards the priest , her pig-tails flying , calling , ‘ Zio Padee ! |
| 23 | After about four or five months on the anti-cellulite programme you will see a dramatic improvement in your figure . |
| 24 | Rare Bear had melted the piston in the No 2 cylinder and it looked like the rod in the No 1 cylinder had bent , tilting the entire jug about four or five degrees . |
| 25 | I used to do criminal work when I was in general practice but I have n't done criminal work now for about four or five years . |
| 26 | Erm , and we have had , I think about four or five people who are currently being referred on |
| 27 | It 's like that , it 's a little bit like it 's a little bit like The Bill because there 's about four or five different conversations . |
| 28 | Each man then , there was about , there 'd be about four or five men there , all had a number of girls working for them , and er they had to pay the wages out of what they earned . |
| 29 | but then there 's about four or five of them then . |
| 30 | About four or five weeks ago , just completely collapsed . |