Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] about four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meyer will return home for a few weeks after this weekend 's race , and will then fly to Britain , where she will set up base for about four months , competing on the European circuit in her build-up for the World Championships in Stuttgart , where she will no doubt meet McColgan again . |
| 2 | The US electronic industries have been in recession for about four years , and Morton 's business in this area is driven by computers , telecommunications and consumer electronics including components for cars , all of which have been hit . |
| 3 | Then they said we do accept some responsibility for about four percent of problems . |
| 4 | Out of this difficulty , according to astronomer John Macvey , was born the celebrated ‘ other star ’ theory , which was to dominate astronomical thinking for about four decades . |
| 5 | ‘ I was a Hawkwind fan for about four years . |
| 6 | Lucy took afternoon tea at about four o'clock , and dinner at eight . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Anyway , I kept them in the aviary for about four weeks just to make sure they would adapt to one another . |
| 9 | She went into the shadowy house , where a boy of about four was holding his arm . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | She found one little girl of about four under a pile of masonry . |
| 14 | Does the Minister understand that the arrogance and insensitivity of his hon. Friend , who has not agreed to a meeting for about four months now , has been noted not just by Mr. Johnston but by every farmer in the north-east of Scotland ? |
| 15 | Cunningham ( 1951 ) and Smith & Fiddes ( 1955 ) find a mean difference of about four inches between the sexes , for total length . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the period from about four to seven years , still a preconceptual stage , children still make judgements based on appearance rather than reason . |
| 20 | And I was really wrecked and I was I was n't even actually ill I just sat , well I was eventually but I sat on this wall for about four hours , yeah |
| 21 | We 'd stuck by each other for about four or five years . ’ |
| 22 | You 're afraid to ask perhaps for I mean I 've lived in a house with a landlord , the landlord turned the heating down , turned the water heating off on occasions because we were using too much hot water between about four or five of us . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It goes in the fridge for about four days . |
| 25 | From the age of about four onwards , and at intervals over the years , Shanti would ask , ‘ Did n't my mother love me ? ’ |
| 26 | I started at school in the 1920s , when we were taught how to knit the toe and heel of socks ( very handy in later life ) and I continued to knit later for my children , grandchildren and even a great-grandson until about four years ago when I developed knitter 's thumb ! |
| 27 | Well you need ideally some space for about four or five tennis courts to run |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |