Example sentences of "one of [adv] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Halford , 51 , one of only four women assistant chief constables , was suspended on full pay in December , 1990 , over allegations of neglect of duty , discreditable conduct and falsehood . |
| 2 | Ted joined the Palace from Hull City in December 1911 and immediately scored a hat-trick on his debut ( one of only four Palace men ever to achieve this feat ) at West Ham on 30 December ( 6–1 ) , and then repeated the feat a week later when Bristol Rovers came to The Palace ( 4–1 ) . |
| 3 | Washington is one of only four US states which still allow hanging . |
| 4 | John Dyter has gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Associateship of Honour — one of only four people nationwide to be conferred the honour this year . |
| 5 | This is a split in two by the prominent crack of Scylla ( VS 4c ) — a fine , ever steepening line until a traverse left avoids the obvious direct finish ( E2 5c ) : one of only four lines on the crag to have used aid on the first ascent . |
| 6 | The Latics were one of only four sides to beat the League champions last season and Royle said : ‘ They will be going all out to put that right . ’ |
| 7 | Two of the most significant items are a recently-purchased Lutyens sketchbook — one of only four in existence — and a group of drawings by Vanbrugh and Sir Edward Lovett Pearce , known as the Elton Hall volumes . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly the most important piece in sale was lot 241 , the Edward Webb chocolate pot of around 1710 , one of only four known examples of the form in American silver . |
| 9 | The Monet is one of only four small-scale waterlily pictures . |
| 10 | Among the rugs is one of only four known Esari prayer rugs from the first half of the nineteenth century , which is expected to bring £6–8,000 ( $10–14,000 ) . |
| 11 | This sale of American furniture , silver , folk art and decorative arts will put on offer one of only four American sugar casters from the early eighteenth century . |
| 12 | One of only four postgraduate art programmes in Holland , the Van Eyck is being radically restructured : there are to be three new heads of department , Heinz Prezold taking charge of Theory , Johann Aders , Design , and Thompson Fine Art . |
| 13 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 14 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 15 | Among the earliest purchases for the collection was a poignant portrayal of St John the Evangelist by Simone Martini , dated 1320 , which is one of only four works by this master in Britain — another of which is owned by the Art Gallery at Chamberlain Square . |
| 16 | Allan , 23 , fought off stiff competition from throughout the UK to win one of only four advanced training places for architectural craftsmen . |
| 17 | The department is one of only four in the UK offering a taught Masters degree in Landscape Architecture , and it supports a large programme of postgraduate research . |
| 18 | The courses at Edinburgh ( one of only four universities in Britain where an honours degree in Sanskrit may be taken ) aim to provide a detailed study of the manifold achievements , both secular and religious , of that civilisation . |
| 19 | Brixton itself was one of only two colleges which had nationally recognized diplomas in the field ( it was one of only four specialist institutions in the field ) , and as a member of the School he experienced the ‘ shock of rejection ’ , when its degree proposals were turned down in 1967–68 . |
| 20 | One of only four King 's Plate prizes known to have survived , the NMS example was bought with the aid of grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the National Art Collections Fund . |
| 21 | Cheshire is one of only four forces in England and Wales not to have a full-time armed response vehicle . |