Example sentences of "had four [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each landing had four flats , two on each side of the landing . |
| 2 | Whether they only had four flats or whether there 's a flat on another block and another block of fours down the road . |
| 3 | At the beginning of the 1970s the Council had four committees and sixty-four boards and panels , and a staff of thirty-six , with an inevitably increasing workload . |
| 4 | Before that we played in America during the same week as the Masters at Hattisburg , Mississippi , Nick had four rounds of 67 and finished second . |
| 5 | The Dogon were aware that the planet Saturn had rings and that the planet Jupiter had four moons , which are pieces of information that can not be obtained without the use of a telescope — an artefact the Dogon have yet to discover . |
| 6 | Following this clue , they studied the antibody-producing blood cells of young and old people and found that cells made by older people had four times as many plasmids as ‘ young cells ’ ( Nature , vol 301 , P 394 ) . |
| 7 | BBC2 settled down with about 10 per cent of the total TV audience and heavily subsidized by BBC1 , which had four times the viewers at only twice the cost . |
| 8 | The National Child Development Study , a longitudinal study of a group of children born in 1958 , showed that the children of owner-occupiers had four times the chance of being in their own owned home rather than in a local authority rented home at age 23 in 1981 , compared with those children who were in the local authority sector at age 7 ( Social Trends 15 , Table 8.11 ; see also Jones , 1987 ) . |
| 9 | The town 's ambulancemen had four times just arrived back at their station when they were called out again to the Spa , bringing in contestants with injuries including a black eye , broken nose , concussion and a damaged foot . |
| 10 | Well the point was you see , we had a dumb hopper , the dumb hopper was towed by an old tug , they had to tow that dumb hopper to sea , what was called dumb cos they ai n't got no engines and so that was towed to sea and then course the er the dumb hopper ha had four winches , hand winches and then they , cos they had the chains on the but the steam hopper |
| 11 | And and between that er every year the conference was held and er we had four meetings a a year local meetings . |
| 12 | Five experimental words were chosen ; four of which had four senses and the remaining word three . |
| 13 | In my day the only coaches we had were called charabancs and had four wheels and a man in a peaked hat . ’ |
| 14 | It had four wheels , but that was where the similarity to anything she had ever driven ended . |
| 15 | Peering between the uprights of the gate , I saw that the horse stood before Frankenstein 's gate harnessed to a phaeton — or so I believe that type of carriage was called ; it was open and had four wheels . |
| 16 | Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright . |
| 17 | It 's designed to sleep two or three but on one occasion we had four adults sleeping inside . |
| 18 | I knew somebody else who could do that , but he had four feet . |
| 19 | I had four cameras lying around me on the seabed , all set at different distances . ’ |
| 20 | If you had four things |
| 21 | If you had four things and you wanted to divide them between four people |
| 22 | They had four sledges , and forty-eight dogs . |
| 23 | She expected to live her life as though she still had four maids with me doing their work . ’ |
| 24 | Once or twice people put their heads round the door and asked her if the Meditation proof was up yet , or whether she knew ‘ that she had four inches less than usual on page twelve . |
| 25 | He had four matches in hand when Forest won the title with a goalless draw at Coventry , the ground where Blackburn 's 2-0 win has just made them leaders . |
| 26 | The technique during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had four stages . |
| 27 | The Westminster Press , controlled by the Pearson family ( Lord Cowdray ) , had four mornings , nine evenings and the Birmingham Sunday Mercury . |
| 28 | For tomorrow 's Division I game , Hawick will be without the injured Nick Bannerman , Scott Welsh , Greig Oliver , Jim Hay and Brian Renwick , while Tim Stokes , David Taylor and Derek Turnbull are rated as very doubtful , especially the Scotland flanker , who had four stitches inserted in a head cut last Saturday . |
| 29 | They had four sons and a daughter , Bessie Lee , who had inherited the beauty of her grandmother . |
| 30 | His 25-year-old wife Cornelia was born in Geneva , Switzerland , and they had four sons under five years old , all born at Wolverton . |