Example sentences of "[adv] about four " in BNC.
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| 1 | On other flights , Soviet cosmonauts could work only about four hours a day . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got a Fender USA Strat which is only about four years old , but it 's a nice guitar . |
| 3 | This comes as something of a surprise , because the human species is only about four million years old and the Brahims substantially younger ! |
| 4 | In 1946 , when post-war service began , the TV set sat in the corner for most of the time , as the service lasted for only about four hours a day . |
| 5 | After a great deal of pressure exerted upon him by Dempsey and others , the husband agreed to guarantee the indebtedness on the Dempsey accounts for a limited period said to be ‘ only about four days , ’ and to secure this by a charge on his house in favour of the bank . |
| 6 | And you I mean you 're gon na get you 're only about four foot high you see ? |
| 7 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |
| 8 | The distance from the food source to the hive at which the changeover from round to waggle dance takes place differs between different races of bees ; Apis mellifera lamarcki , for example , do round dances up to distances of only about four yards , whereas Apis mellifera carnica do it up to about 16 yards . |
| 9 | ‘ Not here in the town , but only about four miles away , in a village . |
| 10 | got home late last night — left N. at 2.30 which was 1.30pm our time and then got , just — with literally only about four minutes to spare once he had rung me , the 6pm train from Kings Cross . |
| 11 | But definitely they should er explore this County and not erm wanted to come into I think it was into the Estuary to drill for gold and minerals an all that , and the planning of the National Park said , No , and the blinking hole is only about four inches wide . |
| 12 | The whole concrete structure was sunk into the ground so it seemed only about four feet high . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For the proposed West Wales seat I understand the electorate is only about four hundred thousand . |
| 15 | Only about four pounds . |
| 16 | Anyway , I come in ah , I went int kitchen , and I thought oh , there 's a loaf out of freezer , and I looked at the loaf but there 's only about four sandwiches in it . |
| 17 | Oh yeah , she 's only about four foot ten |
| 18 | Well I think it 's only about four . |
| 19 | but she was only about four foot eleven |
| 20 | Yeah , it was only about four steps . |
| 21 | So about four rungs down from the top I stop . |
| 22 | A nice green colour just about four inches long . |
| 23 | Just about four fields . |
| 24 | Your father passed away about four minutes ago . ’ |
| 25 | Where it 's usually about four or five hundred . |
| 26 | It 's usually about four or five hundred , he bought it second-hand for two hundred quid . |
| 27 | at erm four-ish about four |
| 28 | These were also about four feet down , the remains were sent to Sir Arthur Keith F.R.S . |
| 29 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 30 | I remember we I had this sort of enamel brown enamel jug , ooh it was mm must have been somewhere about four . |