Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 2 | Mr Tebbit , the ex-party chairman and MP for Chingford , asked Mr Hurd ‘ whether the pledge that we have given for the last four general elections , that there would be no further large-scale immigration , still stands or not ? ’ |
| 3 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , exhausted or not , you wo n't be getting much sleep for the next four days . |
| 5 | Not even The Smiths , it seems , could surpass the admiration the man in shorts has for the Fab Four … |
| 6 | Darlington health authority 's budget has been frozen for the next four years prompting a review of spending priorities . |
| 7 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 8 | The remainder come from the following four categories : |
| 9 | 1990-91commitments in support of macroeconomic and structural policies totalled only SDR5,600 million , two-thirds of which had been committed in the last four months to five countries — Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Poland and Romania . |
| 10 | Between April 1988 and March 1989 average rents in housing association properties rose by 24 per cent with most of the increases occurring in the first four months of 1989 . |
| 11 | In contrast , the News of the World itself covered eighteen cases in 1951 , thirty-five in 1961 and fifty-eight in 1971 which were not reported in the other four . |
| 12 | J.W.B. Douglas ( 1973 ) found that children who have no stressful event reported in the first four years of life ( especially the third and fourth ) are much less likely to wet their beds than children who have experienced these events . |
| 13 | General Council 's action in support of the miners and wool textile workers signaled a turn in the tide , the beginning of a definite stand against the policy of wage reductions which economic conditions have enabled the employers to impose in the last four and a half years . |
| 14 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 15 | The most important principles of conduct , which apply to everyone working in the ES , are contained in the following four statements : |
| 16 | Figure 5 shows their distribution with time ; 49% occurred in the first four seconds after the onset of the common cavity episode and 34% were scattered over the 5th to the 27th second after the onset of the common cavity . |
| 17 | expected over the next four months it 's nevertheless from a reasonably high level because it 's done well so far erm and I would n't want to over stress the sense in which Wales is perhaps not doing as well as the others . |
| 18 | This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation . |
| 19 | Traditionally , the market has been dominated by the big four clearing banks and their leasing subsidiaries : Lombard North Central ( owned by NatWest ) , National Westminster itself , Lloyds Leasing and Lloyds Bowmaker , Barclays Mercantile and Forward Asset Finance ( part of Midland Bank ) . |
| 20 | The Angkatan Perpaduan Ummah ( APU ) is an opposition coalition consisting of the following four parties : Barisan Jama'ah Islamiah Se Malaysia ( Berjasa , Wan Hashim Bin Haji Wan Achmed pres . ) ; |
| 21 | Already , he knew that his chances of living through the next four or five weeks had been severely curtailed . |
| 22 | Nor is this untypical ; statistics prepared for the past four years present the same picture . |
| 23 | Everything that he had written during the previous four years on the overriding need to oppose fascism , on the need to defend nation states through the creation of a Strong system of alliances based on collective security , and on the central role of the Soviet Union in promoting peace and stability , all was reduced to the level of absurdity by the Nazi-Soviet pact , the invasion of Poland and subsequently the war in Finland . |
| 24 | Some boy give me a single red rose and I 'd say , What you done with the other four , given them to your other girls ? |
| 25 | On Nov. 23-25 representatives of France and Indonesia , as co-chairs of the PICC , met with the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council in Paris and agreed on the final draft of the Cambodian peace settlement . |
| 26 | Johnston , saddling his 48th winner of the year , should now go on to achieve his maiden half century , and does not mind whether it happens in the last four days of turf racing or on the all-weather . |
| 27 | I recalled that in the New Testament , in the life of Jesus as written in the first four books , there were many psychic happenings . |
| 28 | No house built in the past four decades has a front porch ( verandah , for Britons ) ; Americans prefer the private world of their expansive back lawns . |
| 29 | The Strasbourg winger missed the opening games of the new season but has featured in the last four with no ill effects from his ligament damage . |
| 30 | FT-SE 100 futures have a maximum life of nine months , and most of the volume occurs in the last four months of the contract 's life . |