Example sentences of "four of [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gronberg , a powerful hitter who won the Rome Classic in the first tournament of the season , gathered an eagle and four of her six birdies at the long holes . |
| 2 | Mrs Ann Marie O'Donnell of St. Serf 's Parish spoke of Self Control and Holiness and four of her five children spoke of the change of heart in his or her own life . |
| 3 | She lives there with four of her seven children who remain alive , and her tiny grandson . |
| 4 | Thee were plenty of amusements for the young guests , including a palmist who proved very popular ; also a tombola , which was most efficiently run by Mr and Mrs John Pearce , helped by four of their five children . |
| 5 | And Notts County had won four of their five league matches at Meadow Lane this season but they were given an early shock by today 's visitors Portsmouth . |
| 6 | The Conservatives , on the other hand , were anxious to stress the importance of Churchill 's leadership , and he delivered four of their ten broadcasts ; the Conservative manifesto was also linked with his name , being entitled Mr. Churchill 's Declaration of Policy to the Electors . |
| 7 | Essex won the £1000 Team of the Month award after winning four of their seven Championship matches in June . |
| 8 | Now Worthing hopes to convert four of its eight dustcarts with sponsorship from the Institute of Grocery Distribution , the supermarkets ' think-tank , to extend the service to half the town . |
| 9 | Last week , London-based USL Europe made four of its 40 staff redundant — jobs went from accounts , marketing , technical and systems administration departments . |
| 10 | Four of our six patients with active disease were on steroid therapy and they still had a greater absorption of PEGs than the patients in remission and controls . |
| 11 | ‘ If we win four of our nine games we should get into the play-offs . ’ |
| 12 | Norton 's Coin won four point-to-points out of ten runs over three seasons and then developed into a good chaser : by the time of his Gold Cup attempt he had won four of his fourteen races under Rules , including a valuable chase at Cheltenham the previous April . |
| 13 | Wills used to invite four of his eight employees to lunch with him on alternate Sundays . |
| 14 | Over the past seven days , there have been most encouraging reports about Magic Ring , winner of four of his five outings as a two-year-old — although he was disqualified once . |
| 15 | Four of his five sons , James [ q.v . ] , |
| 16 | Silver Buck , now eleven , had won four of his five races during the 1982–3 season but had been beaten in the King George by Wayward Lad , who had not run since and whose participation at Cheltenham had been in doubt until a searching gallop had proved his readiness . |
| 17 | Four of his five brothers followed their father into public service : most conspicuously Lambert , pensionary of Rotterdam , and Abraham , attorney-general of the province of Holland . |
| 18 | Schmid took four of his six toccatas from the examples in Diruta 's Il Transilvano ( Venice , 1597 ) , a dialogo on the playing of organs and harpsichords — including the method of making ornamented transcriptions for them . |
| 19 | TELFORD 'S Richie Woodhall will defend his Commonwealth middleweight title in Wolverhampton on January 20 against Jacques Le Blanc , a former Canadian champion who has lost only four of his 25 contests . |