Example sentences of "in four [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In four dimensions it would drop to " Is , in five dimensions to " , and so on . )
2 hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye
3 When in Four Quartets he was concerned to state or develop a theme , he frequently relapsed into flatness or banality .
4 Without his Histories in Four Books we should know virtually nothing of what happened in the months following Louis the Pious 's death , and , more importantly , we should have had to guess at the motivations of those involved .
5 Wasps , though , can point to a mighty league record — in four seasons they have been champions , second ( twice ) and third .
6 My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along .
7 In four years I fostered one ! and I am proud to say that Fr Liam Durrant , our present Vocations Director , came through my hands — should he be successful , would that make me a grandfather ? !
8 Er it sort of goes in four ways I mean the fathers talk more directly than the mothers whether or not it 's a boy or a girl they 're talking to .
9 In four days they moved nine kilometres .
10 Well the difference in him in four days it 's not bad really is it ?
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