Example sentences of "[be] four [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now I 'm quite happy to argue we 're twice as good as the Japanese , but I 'm not prepared to claim we 're four times as good , which is what these figures suggest .
2 gutters they they they 're in four piece , they 're four yards or something .
3 They 're four years behind .
4 That means I 'm four foot seven .
5 I 'm four year now .
6 I 'm four B.
7 He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’
8 I 'm four years old
9 There will be four vacancies in Aril when Pauline Kenward , Doreen Prescott , Joan Daniels and Patricia Keen finish their respective terms of office .
10 Ten minutes later Nora said- ’ With two thousand dwellings , the weekly rent would be four shillings for a labourer , four and tenpence for a mechanic , and eight shillings for an overseer . ’
11 Well there might be four blocks of four or I du n no .
12 There will be four disciplines : Downhill , super G , giant slalom and slalom .
13 There will be four engines in operation with two trains to push , pull , top and tail , and double-head .
14 These ‘ Mietkaserne ’ ( literally ‘ rental barracks ’ ) , to avoid the slum problem of a London or central Berlin , would be four storeys high and would open up on an interior square that was green and ample enough to permit plenty of light and fresh air .
15 must be I put fiver in , that must be four year ago
16 Under the string will be four layers of sacking and this provides cushion enough for the stem to grow and swell without restriction until you remake the tie — in a year 's time , at the most .
17 The planned altitude was 31,000 feet and the estimated time en route three hours and fifty minutes with fuel endurance calculated to be four hours and forty minutes .
18 There 's likely to be four groups meeting
19 Our dream issue would be four inches wide , perforated top and bottom and with a wee picture of Bobby Gillespie on every page Put up the price so Mark E Smith ca n't afford it The incredible rise of fame of Simon ‘ Fabulous ’ Dudfield
20 Indeed , John Knox was later to claim that after Beaton had cried into the dying king 's ear that there should be four regents , with himself as principal , ‘ a dead man 's hand was made to subscribe a blank ’ .
21 There might be four reference banks with the following LIBOR rates on the reference day :
22 So , if you 're doing a divide , you want instead of four tens , you just want that to be four ones , do n't you ?
23 In the gallery 's second room will be four works from earlier stages of Pistoletto 's career : a mirrored cube entitled ‘ A square metre of infinity ’ ( 1966–70 ) ; ‘ Hunger ’ , a 1989 sculpture of wood , foam rubber and canvas ; and ‘ The gift of Mercury to the mirror ’ ( 1971 ) in bronze , mirror-glass and quicksilver .
24 Japanese drift-nets in the 1970s were about 15 km ( 10 miles ) in length , but now they may be four times that length .
25 So the answer is going to be four times a hundred , four hundred .
26 Using this criterion it was possible to show that the damper inertia should be four times the total motor/load inertia ( including the housing inertia ) : and the viscous fluid constant should then be related to the stiffness and damper inertia by : If a well-matched damper is coupled into the system the improvement in the single-step response is achieved with a shorter settling time and lower overshoot , as shown in Fig. 4.13 .
27 the death in service benefit will be four times earnings .
28 Looking specifically at our concerns with regard to erm Hambledon , erm in Hambledon the area search would erm extend to about eighty two kilometres , that 's square kilometres , erm and contain six , this contains six villages , er with populations ranging from a hundred and fourteen to nine hundred and seventy one , erm proposed new settlement of fourteen hundred hou erm dwellings , er would be four times erm greater than the largest settlement in this area , Easingwold is the nearest small town , that 's about the equivalent erm equivalent size in terms of number of dwellings , erm we believe that it would er dominate the existing settlement pattern in the area , and would introduce erm a dislocation erm into er a settlement pattern .
29 New Zealand Cricket had decided that there will be four selectors , with the coach being added to the panel .
30 Hall argues that there will be four components in a situation of conflict ( I ) The parties involved .
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