Example sentences of "four [coord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that a four or a five ? |
| 2 | If the choice of bearing is between a sixteen double O four and a six double O four , it may hang , for us it may hang on whether , er , whether we can localize the sixteen double O four |
| 3 | Yasmin was mother to a boy aged four and a two-year-old girl . |
| 4 | Four and a half years , he wrote . |
| 5 | The Siberian crane stands four and a half feet tall , its brilliant white plumage offset by a blood-red beak , face and legs . |
| 6 | P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has five sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Zeebrugge : crossing time four and a half hours . |
| 7 | Today no-one — with the possible exception of members of his family - seriously believes that Wallenberg is still alive somewhere in what is left of the Gulag Archipelago , four and a half years into perestroika . |
| 8 | For four and a half centuries the village and manor have belonged to the Earls of Pembroke . |
| 9 | Instead , he was out first thing next morning for 110 and Gower declared at 300 for 9 , leaving West Indies to make 342 in four and a half hours and twenty overs . |
| 10 | ‘ Between the two of them , he owed between three and a half and four and a half thousand dollars , just for cocaine for that weekend . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On one day in March 1969 , four and a half hours were spent on points of order and discussing the confidentiality of attendance records . |
| 13 | The critics argued that the space probes were a useless waste of money in words that were amazingly similar to those recorded against Columbus some four and a half centuries earlier . |
| 14 | The result is an evening of Wagnerian dimension spread over four and a half hours . |
| 15 | The effect of Christian Democrat hegemony for four and a half decades has been the perpetual incumbency of a small circle of politicians . |
| 16 | There are four and a half million people earning above average incomes and therefore potentially vulnerable to Labour 's tax squeeze . |
| 17 | Officers strutted in their brightest breacan-feiles ; the same length of a finer cloth , four and a half feet wide , held at the waist by a silver-buckled belt to fall double thickness , and the outside layer at the back drawn up over the left shoulder and pinned with a great silver brooch . |
| 18 | After about four and a half hours of driving , Sadler calculated that they were one mile away from the target , although there was absolutely nothing to see . |
| 19 | The time of proving himself was over ; John Cranko now held an official and important post in the Sadler 's Wells organization , only four and a half years after arriving in Britain as a student at the Sadler 's Wells school . |
| 20 | We had barely enough food for three months , let alone the four and a half it would take at fifteen miles a day . |
| 21 | My five feet four and a half even on tiptoe could nowhere approximate his angle of vision . |
| 22 | The next four and a half years were a waking nightmare for the Keenans , especially for Brian 's sisters Brenda Gillham and Elaine Spence . |
| 23 | Those who were lucky enough to see these two players in the same Palace team for four and a half seasons were certainly among the most privileged of the club 's patrons . |
| 24 | Here … the payment of the majority of the men each week takes place four and a half thousand men are handed their wages by the pay-clerks in less than ten minutes . |
| 25 | After four and a half years of war involving food and clothes rationing , and bombing , and losing friends , the sight of these large , prosperous , untouched-by-anything foreigners parading round the streets , chatting up anything in skirts , was profoundly irritating . |
| 26 | At four and a half months old , young pigs are taken for slaughter to be sold as pork ; at six months old the remainder meet their end as bacon . |
| 27 | I spent the next four and a half months in Kuwait and Iraq as part of Saddam Hussein 's human shield , with nothing except my hand luggage and the clothes ( and shoes ) that I was wearing when the flight left London . |
| 28 | I even wore those same trainers that had been glued to my feet for four and a half months . |
| 29 | Not bad for four and a half months of the University 's time , I suppose . |
| 30 | Geoff Dowling , race secretary and one-time competitor ( but unfortunately never winner ) , told me that five and a half hours was reasonable but the first-class walkers could be expected about four and a half hours after the start . |