Example sentences of "about four " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps worth mentioning a recently developed crag which is just off the Moustiers road , about four kilometres outside La Palud . |
| 2 | Broadly speaking , however , there are about four general reasons for files which transfer graphics information : |
| 3 | ‘ I felt high for about four days , not thinking about anything but caring for her . ’ |
| 4 | Davidson added that Somerset has about four cases to hear next week which means that Chilcott is left kicking his heels for another seven days . |
| 5 | The French Officer gets us all out of the ditch and the march continues for about four or five hours , then , during a rest in the wood , I fall asleep , my face among the leaves reminding me of my home in Scotland . |
| 6 | He had given her an egg ; an orange egg about four inches long and made , of all things , of soap . |
| 7 | During a normal night 's sleep we cycle between these two main states , generally getting through about four cycles as the night passes . |
| 8 | In apparent agreement with this idea , some subjects appeared to benefit from continual advances of their sleep/wake rhythm ( as though they were continually flying eastward ) or by being woken temporarily at about four o'clock in the morning to receive a burst of bright light for about an hour . |
| 9 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 10 | The young hedgehogs are reared by their mothers , and at about four weeks of age they may be seen foraging with her in the darkness . |
| 11 | To me , Troublesome Behaviour is about four people desperately trying to make contact with each other . |
| 12 | Battery life on the Lynx is about four hours with six AA batteries , but a mains adapter is included in the package ( the GameBoy adapter is extra ) . |
| 13 | That was the last time I saw David for about four years . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It 's something I learned when I was about four , ’ she tells us . |
| 15 | His Mum had about four flasks she kept on top of the fridge . |
| 16 | ‘ He did not change for death till about four o'clock on the day he died . |
| 17 | ‘ We had such a sweet leave-taking yesterday at about four o'clock . |
| 18 | I remember going with my mother and my brother to a colliery tip about four miles away . |
| 19 | New plants will form from the cut veins in about four to six months . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A desirable size for a shelter shed is about four by four metres , and closed on three sides . |
| 22 | However , he managed to keep a certain degree of sanity by exercising himself in regular bucking sessions at about four o'clock every afternoon . |
| 23 | We went on the air in October 1986 and Kylie joined the cast about four months into the series . |
| 24 | It is rough , black , about four feet high and three feet wide , and huge iron spikes have been hammered in a ring around the top . |
| 25 | Even though there is n't much space for plot or characters in between the authorial wisecracks , at 435 ill-written pages Gridlock is about four times as long as it needs to be . |
| 26 | About four miles from Dartmouth , at Hemborough Post , is Stonehouse , a four-bedroom semi-detached 16th century cottage with ample parking . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But after seeing signs of a pick-up in American demand , he says the hotel industry might get a boost around September , on the basis that recovery here lags America by about four months . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | THERE we were , an hour into our journey for lunch , and we had gone about four miles . |