Example sentences of "[noun sg] about four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Special tax on new cars is halved to five percent , making a new car about four hundred pounds cheaper … |
| 2 | We arrived at the lake at about 7.30a.m. after approximately a four and a half hour drive to find two lovely lakes , one , with a chalet on stilts , about seventeen acres and another smaller lake by its side about four and a half acres . |
| 3 | A small window about four feet from the ground provided the only entrance , and rima rested the bird 's weight against the frame while Joseph stood on tiptoe beside him to watch . |
| 4 | A pink , not a pinky but , pale pinky violet about four petals . |
| 5 | There 's a pub about four streets away from us where I used to go with my dad . |
| 6 | Last week I read an article about four successful divorce solicitors , two of whom are representing the Yorks in their divorce . |
| 7 | This is an this is er another this is a good one for use in the field , it can be quite accurate it 's , it 's certainly a very easy one to use in the field cos all you need is a thing that looks a bit like a telescope about four inches long and what tha the principle it 's working on here is the fact that ref the refracted index of water changes as you dissolve salts in it . |
| 8 | JUICE Spike Lee 's cinematographer Ernest Dickerson makes his directorial début with this gritty urban drama about four friends growing up in Harlem . |
| 9 | Acting Detective Inspector Mark Braithwaite said : ‘ A group of individuals descended on this place about four in the morning . |
| 10 | Firstly , nobody , but nobody would want to levy charges until it was a last resort , but if the alternative to levying those charges were perhaps that we had to cut the staffing levels in those adult training centres , then you get a different answer to the question , and I had a meeting about four weeks ago with the heads of some of our centres who 've been asking parents and carers that question . |
| 11 | The police were called , my client was arrested and was detained at the police station from about midnight on the Saturday until eventually he appeared before the court about four o'clock on the Monday afternoon . |
| 12 | In one study , cigar smokers who had taken up cigars after stopping cigarettes and smoked at least five cigars a day had a risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction about four times as high as that among ex-cigarette smokers who did not smoke cigars . |
| 13 | The raid in Wadeville industrial zone was followed two hours later by an ambush about four miles away on a mini-bus taxi in which two black passengers were killed . |
| 14 | It 's a cottage about four miles from here . |
| 15 | The gulf is a wide inlet about four miles long , half a mile at its narrowest , lined with many sandy beaches . |
| 16 | but we , we set off in a big building , well a building about four times the size of this these houses and it was all sheet steel wrapped in polythene packages |
| 17 | It 's tough , I do n't know erm take , take a look about four lines above . |
| 18 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 19 | Erm perhaps the Since I came to the area about four months ago , the thing that I 've noticed most is the people are very proud and they 're very friendly , very open people . |
| 20 | She recently changed erm , to come and work for me on the Warwickshire area about four weeks ago . |
| 21 | He had given her an egg ; an orange egg about four inches long and made , of all things , of soap . |
| 22 | ‘ On average about four to five weeks . ’ |
| 23 | We went on the air in October 1986 and Kylie joined the cast about four months into the series . |
| 24 | People who took up a similar offer about four years ago are making up to five times their initial investment . |
| 25 | ‘ Well we had the visitor call about four o'clock . |
| 26 | I remember going with my mother and my brother to a colliery tip about four miles away . |
| 27 | I am not gon na move over and I am going at my own pace , so I slowed down to about twenty miles an hour and it 's a road about four miles long and er he just could n't get past , you know ? |
| 28 | The bodies were washed up on a beach about four miles from where they are presumed to have been murdered . ’ |
| 29 | We 've talked a lot about four degrees above absolute zero . |
| 30 | In practice the rockpooler should ensure his arrival about four hours after high spring water , to give him approximately two hours twelve and one half minutes to follow the ebbing tide out before it turns . |