Example sentences of "[conj] about four " in BNC.
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| 1 | To avoid the risk of overdoing it , I would n't recommend the d-i-yer trying more than about four hours a day with these . |
| 2 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
| 3 | The Labour group will keep within the government capping limits , obviously we will , and therefore the council tax increase is getting no more than about four percent , so you ca n't claim all this growth is gon na , well it certainly ca n't count all this growth is going to er , with this ma , massive increase in Council Tax . |
| 4 | Alf Morris , a Labour MP in the last parliament , estimates that about four million disabled people are unable to vote in person for these reasons ( more if some of the million-plus full-time carers are included ) . |
| 5 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 6 | It was totally unbalanced — there were ten or so Labour people , and about four hundred Conservatives — it sat for about three hours every day , and there were a great number like Halifax , Salisbury , Beaverbrook who had been prominent in political life . |
| 7 | ‘ Yet , at that age they are still nursed , still sleep in their mother 's arms , are still three years away from puberty , and about four years from when they will conceive their first offspring . ’ |
| 8 | She sat there and about four o'clock in the afternoon the sister came round , ‘ I 'm sorry , Mrs Nicholson , we have n't got any transport , you 'll have to stop another night . ’ |
| 9 | They returned to Joan 's parents ' house and about four o'clock in the morning decided on two steps . |
| 10 | The Discus are about 15 months old and about four to five inches long . |
| 11 | ‘ A high explosive , I think , Grandma 's and Peggy 's and about four houses in the street behind . |
| 12 | Well that was one would stand against the wall and about four would get down like that and you had a team say of five . |
| 13 | And about four o'clock to five o'clock , they 'd be coming back . |
| 14 | The shoal was some twenty feet long , and about four feet wide . |
| 15 | Again it 's only about four foot high and about four foot wide and a beautiful flower , a beautiful old fashioned type flower and a new , new variety of er of shrub rose and of course again it 's repeat flowering so they go on right through the season and both of them their fragrance is beautiful . |
| 16 | ‘ By the year 2000 , over 13 million women will have been affected , and about four million of them will have died . ’ |
| 17 | And it 's about four hundred and about four hundred and twenty , four hundred and thirty pound to the bank . |
| 18 | I think there 's some in I think I saw some instructions that ideally they were looking for about something like about four hours of lectures and about four hours of y'know kind of more tutorial like interactions . |
| 19 | Long afterwards , in fact only a year or so before his death , at a party after the London premiere of his ballet Poème de l'Extase , John sat up until about four in the morning , in a mood of black melancholy , talking to his friend Peter Rosenwald about the misery of a homosexual life . |
| 20 | Selecting another piece of grass , he said : ‘ Anyway , I stayed awake until about four this morning , going over and over it in my mind , and when I woke an hour or so later , I had one almighty headache … bloody brass band playing inside the old brainbox … flashing lights before the eyes … the lot ! |
| 21 | Until about four years ago the return was produced by hand ( and its equivalents still are in some areas ) , a time consuming and laborious job . |
| 22 | Do n't forget , she wo n't be home until about four o'clock . ’ |
| 23 | I was on all day and I , it did n't come off until about four o'clock |
| 24 | And then I was dozing a bit and while we were watching like Arachnophobia we were we were still in bed but about four hours sleep just about . |
| 25 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 26 | ‘ He did not change for death till about four o'clock on the day he died . |
| 27 | After about four or five months on the anti-cellulite programme you will see a dramatic improvement in your figure . |
| 28 | ‘ For some reason I became worried after about four days . |
| 29 | After about four weeks my boss said , ‘ Well , I 'm either going to have to fire you or promote you . ’ |
| 30 | And after about four months I thought I was strong enough to tackle the weight , and that it would n't be too much going on at once . |