Example sentences of "about four [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she was a mother too — she and Varna had a child — a little girl who was about four at the time . |
| 2 | Once Astrid had taken her shopping ( she was about four at the time ) and set her down on a stool by a counter when she tried on earrings in a round mirror on a stand ; a salesgirl with a promotional tray of perfumes approached her and Astrid turned and extended her wrist to sample it . |
| 3 | ‘ I paint about 30 pictures a year and I usually have about four on the go at once . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet , although the number of officials for every 2,000 head of population rose from one in the 1750s to about four in the 1850s , the proportion was still incomparably lower than that prevailing in the West . |
| 7 | Andy shows me to my room , a floor down , at about four in the morning . |
| 8 | At about four in the morning , by the light of one candle , she thrust two more books into the new black bag , tested its weight , and did it up . |
| 9 | Acting Detective Inspector Mark Braithwaite said : ‘ A group of individuals descended on this place about four in the morning . |
| 10 | William Huck , 66 , said : ‘ It was about four in the morning and I could feel the windows rattling . |
| 11 | I 've , I 've got about four in the bottom of the fridge . |
| 12 | No , I tell ya , there 's about four in the company started doing it altogether , oh this is about the fourth one I think why that 's what third |
| 13 | Twenty sixth about four in the afternoon . |