Example sentences of "four [noun pl] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was to be preferred to the more rigid prescriptions of schools like the large 11–18 Welsh comprehensive which allocated young pupils to sharply divided courses within the school : one group advancing fast to O level in four years , four groups in five years , the next four to CSE ( for which see Chapter 7 ) in five years , four groups following special technical courses , two following general technical courses , two or three on commercial courses , and finally two groups for ‘ low ability ’ pupils . |
| 2 | As many as 90 per cent of the persons arrested under these powers are released without charge after having been detained for anything from four hours to seven days . |
| 3 | This was based on four cases including two cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma but none of leukaemia . |
| 4 | Leicester went into the game inspired by four wins in five games , a run that had opened up the possibility of a hat-trick of promotion successes for manager Brian Little after taking Darlington from the Vauxhall Conference to the Third Division in the last two seasons . |
| 5 | The boys of Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School — four wins in four matches — are catching on to it . |
| 6 | Halstead will look to make it four wins in four games . |
| 7 | ‘ Four wins from nine games would probably earn us a play-off place but I want to go for the No.2 spot . |
| 8 | Thus the time passes until three , when I go … to a Dutch officer to give him a lesson in galanterie and thoroughbass , for which I receive … four ducats for twelve lessons . |
| 9 | With that sort of money administrator Roy Montgomery reckons they can carry out up to four programmes in 12 months and provide opportunities for up to 40 young people . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly perhaps , it has only been repeated three or four times in 14 years ! |
| 11 | This centre for the elderly has been broken into four times in two years . |
| 12 | This centre for people with special needs has been broken into four times in nine days . |
| 13 | ‘ I was shocked when Bristol City released me because I thought that I was doing well , ’ said Vernon , who has now scored four times in three games for Bath but has not yet started a game . |
| 14 | In some cases , they meant what they said ; by 1986 , some foreigners had been evacuated from Lebanon four times in 12 years . |
| 15 | The presentation of memories as they were told brings this book alive , but the Civic Society might have been better served by their publisher who should have avoided duplicating four paragraphs in two chapters attributed to different contributors . |
| 16 | It takes four pictures within five seconds and transmits them in under a minute ; it incorporates infra-red strobes , making it effective without light . |
| 17 | There are various theories as to how long the inquiry will last , ranging from four months to nine months , or even longer . |
| 18 | Ten had taken an oral contraceptive ( oestrogen content unspecified ) for periods ranging from four months to 13 years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Mathiesen et al found a difference in urinary albumin excretion between captopril and no antihypertensive treatment by measuring blood pressure and urinary albumin excretion every four months in 44 patients similar to ours , but this was true only after four years of follow up . |
| 21 | Instead , Scotland ended their season with four losses from four games . |
| 22 | Four goals in two games . |
| 23 | ‘ He 's a great bloke and deserves to do well , ’ said Allon , who has scored four goals in five games for Brentford since his £275,000 move from Chelsea last month . |
| 24 | Mike Sheron , with four goals in four games , has prompted three successive Premier League wins , pushed City to seventh and turned the Maine Road jeers to cheers . |
| 25 | Four goals in 25 minutes sent them crashing . |
| 26 | Titmuss , who only returned to the club this season after spending last year with the Telford Tigers , blitzed four goals inside 14 minutes of the opening period . |
| 27 | Rated at four channels of 50 watts each into 8 ohms it can also be used in bridged format to produce the equivalent of a normal stereo amplifier rated at 10 watts mono plus 50 watts stereo. ) the Units will cost £229.99 . |
| 28 | Reims suffered four sieges in sixty years , Épernay was pillaged half a dozen times and burnt twice . |
| 29 | Then it all went wrong for Hamilton , who dropped four strokes in four holes from the 11th as the chill wind began to take its toll and Davis romped away to win by five strokes . |
| 30 | His biggest piece was a vestibule door panel depicting a heron and measuring four feet by three feet . |