Example sentences of "of about four " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Liberal Democrats were averaging just under 19 per cent — a fall of about four per cent on the level of the Liberal-SDP Alliance in 1987 . |
| 2 | From Tripoli to the Tunisian border is a drive of about four hours , with about twice as much again from there to the capital 's international airport . |
| 3 | Some thirty minutes later a crowd of about four hundred dockers left work and marched through the city centre to their trade-union headquarters in Orchard Street . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | From the age of about four onwards , and at intervals over the years , Shanti would ask , ‘ Did n't my mother love me ? ’ |
| 6 | Maggie came hurrying down the stairs , followed by two little boys of about four and three . |
| 7 | The sales forecasts amounted to 9 megabytes on Lotus , but now under Ark the amount of data has been reduced to 6 megabytes , and the number of presentation styles has increased by a factor of about four to between 10 and 12 . |
| 8 | In the eighteenth century it was the practice , as Misson reminds us , to put bran and sawdust at the bottom of the coffin to a depth of about four inches , and extra wood shavings at the head end . |
| 9 | This is the reason for the invention of the electron microscope which uses electrons with a wave-length of something like a twenty-fifth of an Ångström instead of light with a wave-length of about four thousand Ångströms . |
| 10 | You want somewhere in the region of about four engineers to each school so work it out yourself , it 's quite a job to actually get the ratio right . |
| 11 | She found one little girl of about four under a pile of masonry . |
| 12 | When crossing by boat from West Loch Tarbert to Port Ellen on one of my early Journeys to Islay I was talking with an elderly minister who was coming to visit a crofter brother who was ill , and during our conversation said that it appeared to me that for a small island with a population of about four thousand it had produced an unusually large proportion of ministers , ship captains , marine engineers and doctors and asked him why he thought that was so . |
| 13 | After I had been there one term , however , my father took one of his almost yearly visits to Africa , this time for a rather longer period of about four months . |
| 14 | And we 're shortly to appoint some erm consultant assessor who will assess our system , and we will run our , have our system in place for a period of about four months . |
| 15 | But erm the one on the er for the partnership is only in the region of about four or five thousand . |
| 16 | Cunningham ( 1951 ) and Smith & Fiddes ( 1955 ) find a mean difference of about four inches between the sexes , for total length . |
| 17 | He was then on a f salary of about four hundred a year I think . |
| 18 | I hope that the hon. and learned Member forgave me when I chortled happily when he read out the names of about four members of the Scottish Conservative party who are in favour of this assembly . |
| 19 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |
| 20 | Subjects seemed to provide No responses slower than giving Yes responses initially , but No response reaction time increased at a greater rate tending to converge with reaction time for Yes responses in larger memory sets of about four digits onwards . |
| 21 | That figure was made up as to sixteen thousand three hundred and seventy eight pounds being two third of Mr salary plus an addition of about four thousand pounds to cover Mrs additional help . |
| 22 | She went into the shadowy house , where a boy of about four was holding his arm . |
| 23 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 24 | And then when we elected erm two people Honorary Freemen of the town , erm I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and their mace-bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the assembly hall which was packed house of about four hundred people . |