Example sentences of "the [num ord] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more frequent way of theme continuation is to repeat with some change — not the slight degree of change we have shown above , but the alteration of part of the theme to present even greater interest : In this example , the second four bars have added interest as a result of various factors : larger leaps , higher notes , syncopation , modulation , increase in overall span , etc . |
| 2 | The first rally did not take place , while at the second four prominent leaders , including Haribul Bhattarai , a former mayor of Khathmandu , and Padma Rana Tuladhar , a dissident member of the Rashtriya Panchayat ( National Assembly ) , were immediately arrested . |
| 3 | The second four lucky entrants will receive main stand tickets for the game and a case of Appletise . |
| 4 | Nilsson added the fourth four minutes from time . |
| 5 | Here the first four lines are a translation , and surely a fine one , of Aeneid 2 , 499–502 . |
| 6 | Hogg 's tone changed dramatically when announcing official reaction to the number of dismissals — up from 18 to 32 , plus one match abandoned — in the first four weeks of the season . |
| 7 | Lansink is the only rider who has jumped double clear rounds in the first four contests designated for the Everest Challenge . |
| 8 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Auriol and Biasion tore through the first four special stages to take a commanding lead . |
| 10 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 11 | With the conference appearing doomed to collapse over the issue of the fifth freedom , Canada made a last-ditch effort to save the situation by proposing the first four freedoms , and one weekly round-trip flight that could be increased under an escalator clause of 65 per cent capacity and over . |
| 12 | It 's the first four , maybe five , new cars that Mitsubishi will launch in the UK next year , including new Spacewagons and Shoguns . |
| 13 | In the first four years of her marriage that life had been turned on its head , transformed out of all recognition . |
| 14 | Hungary has been effusive in its help to the Romanians — in the first four days after the revolution no fewer than 550 trucks of aid were sent to Romania . |
| 15 | After shrinking slightly over the past few years , the gap grew to nearly $10 billion during the first four months of this year , up from a little over $6 billion for the same period in 1990 . |
| 16 | According to Teikoku Data Bank , in the first four months of this year bankruptcies , mostly property-related , totalled ¥2.6 trillion , ¥855 billion of that during April . |
| 17 | It was reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and lost equipment . |
| 18 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |
| 19 | The first four are mainly nature observations similar to the Diary printed in The Woodland Life . |
| 20 | Dickinson was no stranger to success in the Gold Cup — he had trained the first two home , Silver Buck and Bregawn , in 1982 — but his feat in the 1983 contest is unique in big-race records , and to find anything remotely comparable you have to go back to 1822 , when James Croft 's four runners in the St Leger filled the first four places . |
| 21 | The first four months of 1945 , which brought the total devastation of the city centres of Nuremberg , Würzburg , and Dresden , saw a further 471,000 tons dropped . |
| 22 | While Dennis and Millie and the first four of their children , Jean , Carol , Suzette and Noel , had headed for the prosperous southern city of Melbourne , Dennis and Joan Riddiford decided to try their luck in the tougher climate of Cairns , in northern Queensland . |
| 23 | Moreover , foreign policy dictated caution ; with France and Scotland in alliance , she could not immediately break with Spain , and for the first four months of her reign the watching world was asked to believe in her willingness to contemplate marriage with her late sister 's husband , Philip II . |
| 24 | THE first four of the Midland Bank 's enterprise funds are about to go ahead . |
| 25 | CANADA 'S Daniel Wesley won the BSAD-ADT London Wheelchair marathon at his third attempt , following a sprint finish on Westminster Bridge in which the first four competitors all achieved times inside Frenchman Farid Amarouch 's 1991 course record . |
| 26 | In the first four months of this year , 11 inmates have killed themselves , including five aged 21 or under , said the group . |
| 27 | The first four of these had mainly family farms and the pattern was understandable but the Wester Ross response was more difficult to explain . |
| 28 | Six specialist workers obtained a total of £306,794 in the first four months of operation of the full scheme in 1985 . |
| 29 | No doubt the first four chapters of this book , in attempting to describe the confusion , are also managing to add to it ! |
| 30 | The first four children appear in the archives with regularity , as does Francis , a child born to Elizabeth and Lord John Russel , a man she married some eight years after the death of Thomas Hoby in Paris in 1566 . |