Example sentences of "for the [num ord] four " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For the first three weeks you will be alternating aerobic walking with moderate walking for the first four days each week , followed by one day 's rest . |
| 3 | The A&R depts that we dealt with when last I was in a band ( about 18 months ago ) all seemed to consist of young men in Armani suits and long raincoats , who only stayed for the first four numbers then left . |
| 4 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 5 | For the first four miles of its existence on Manhattan Island , it serves as a sort of grand metaphor for the exuberant social chaos that characterises New York in its present state of near-disintegration . |
| 6 | South African all-rounder David Callaghan , 27 , who missed most of last season fighting cancer , has been included in the squad for the first four of the seven one-day internationals against India . |
| 7 | ‘ For the first four holes I played like a 20-handicapper . |
| 8 | For the first four months he also funded his salary out of personal savings . |
| 9 | We will pay you 2,000 for seeing through to completion the data files from the submitted ASCII files for the first four titles of Reading for English , 50% of this on signature of this letter and 50% on delivery . |
| 10 | For the first four Mondays in the month a walk will set off at 10.30am from Plas y Brenin National Mountain Centre ( GR 1718579 ) . |
| 11 | Amdahl Corp , Sunnyvale has launched a consulting service and data storage feature to facilitate the migration of customers to Escon Architecture : the company accompanies the new service with a new Serial Channel Feature for next quarter for use with its 6100 Storage Processor , which attaches to parallel channel adaptors on the 6100 and enable it to support serial Escon channel connections ; a 6100 with the feature will support up to 32 Escon serial channels or a mixture of serial and parallel channels ; native serial channels cost $62,560 for the first four and $32,280 for each additional pair ; the Serial Channel Feature start at $21,000 . |
| 12 | Then , using our equations , we predicted the prices for the first four sales of the year 1991 : Sotheby 's 8 January and 18 February 1991 , Christie 's 9 January and 16 April 1991 . |
| 13 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |
| 14 | Like most Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci had generously shared any nuts she cracked with her daughter Nina , for the first four years of her life . |
| 15 | They became increasingly sleepy for the first four days until it became almost impossible for the experimenters to keep them awake . |
| 16 | Well erm , I 've just come up and and the accident so I 'm only entitled to money for the first four days . |
| 17 | Well erm I 've just come off holiday and so I wo n't be entitled to none for the first four days . |
| 18 | For the first four years of the new school 's existence the buildings were used much as they had been prior to amalgamation , but in 1974 organisation was rationalised to provide departmental areas with teaching rooms and adjacent resource bases . |
| 19 | Read through the diet section for the first four weeks and read through the recipes if you are likely to be using them . |
| 20 | Her entire gross profit for the first four months had been negated by shoplifting tots . |
| 21 | I often wish I could live them over again , even though for the first four years I had to supplement my poor earnings by doing evening jobs . ’ |
| 22 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 23 | In the immediate neighbourhood of The Milebrook were few families except for the local farmers , and for the first four years there we had no transport other than bicycles and a pony cart . |
| 24 | ‘ The plates at least for the first four courses are washed as they come out of the dining room . ’ |
| 25 | Meanwhile , a spokesman for Stena Sealink , which carries twice as much as its competitors , P&O and SeaCat , admitted its car traffic was down by about 9pc for the first four months of 1993 , with the total number of passengers also slightly down . |
| 26 | Mineral revenue for the first four months of 1990 was calculated at US$1,075,600 . |
| 27 | In April there was the first deficit on the visible trade account for 10 years ; for the first four months of 1991 the deficit was DM12,000 million ( compared with a surplus for 1990 as a whole of DM77,000 million ) . |
| 28 | The 1992 , Europe and Trade campaign , beginning in September 1992 , will have an emphasis on Latin America for the first four months and then for the remainder of the year will focus on Europe and Trade in the global context . |
| 29 | For the first four or five pages there is absolutely no mention of a bee . |
| 30 | The pregnancy was uneventful apart from bedrest for the first four months . |