How to use "four" in a sentence

This one is about four metres down

1.00 pm I've spent four hours trying to lift the boulder, but nothing has worked.

2.45 pm It's exactly twenty-four hours since the accident.

I have been trapped in Blue John Canyon for the last twenty-four hours

By 6.00 pm, I have taken off more of the boulder in three hours than I did in four days

On August the 31st, four months after the accident, I spoke at Sonja's wedding

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There were four doors in the room, but Alice couldn't open them

What's four and four? Eight

A few minutes later, four policemen arrived, and took me to the police station!

Three or four other people were in the group with her, and they made a good sound

Suddenly it was 28 to 14! And after I caught it four or five more times, it was 28 to 21

Instead of coming down in the sea when we returned, the space ship came down in the jungle somewhere, and it was four years before the NASA people found us! But the ape and I were soon good friends

Then you went up into space and I lost you for four years, and I think you changed

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief Constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago

Three or four minutes later Albert came into the yard again and heard a sound like a bump against the wooden fence that separated the yards of numbers 27 and 29

Nearly four hours later Mary Ann Cox, who lived in Miller's Court, saw Mary walking along Dorset Street with a man

Abbeline himself walked around the Whitechapel Streets until four or five in the morning

They let me out four days ago

'I've spent five years in prison for violent robbery, another fourteen years for trying to escape four times

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In the light of a lamp above a doorway, he saw four men moving along the street in his direction

The four men were still following him

He could see four figures in the distance on the far side of the bridge.

That night at home, Marius opened the package and found that it contained four letters, all addressed to different people, and smelling strongly of cheap tobacco

Marius read the four letters and discovered that they were all asking for money

But my eldest daughter will tell you that my wife is sick and none of us have had any food for four days

Marius realized at once that the handwriting, the yellow paper and the smell of cheap tobacco was the same as in the four letters he had read the previous evening

Leblanc appeared and put four coins on the table

He was unhappy about many things - about losing his teeth, about the political situation but, most of all, about the fact that he had not seen his grandson for four years, since their big quarrel

At last! After four years! Was it really him? He wanted to open his arms and hug him, but all he said was, 'What have you come for?'

Before he could move, Enjolras ordered four men to search him

'But there are only four,' Marius observed.

He stared down at the four uniforms but, as he did so, a fifth uniform fell as if by magic at his feet.

But it was not the man who pushed Jake and took the bag: it was a policeman; the man is underneath four NYPD officers.

It is obvious what the decision will be, but it looks like he will be here until four now

He takes the back stairs, passes three or four lawyers in their black gowns and white wigs and feels sorry for them: it is so hot today

The door of your wardrobe is open, and the clothes inside look like three or four small burglars watching you

You try to see the clock in the dark, but it is impossible, and you think that it must be somewhere between four and six o'clock: the darkest hours of the night when even the lively and vibrant city of Manchester sleeps.

"There's a family who comes here, maybe three or four times a year

"His last class was yesterday at four

Outside they can see the renovation work: there is scaffolding on the face of the old building, a new wall on the side of it, and three or four workmen are sitting on a bench eating lunch.

There are people everywhere, but here on the roof there are only four people

In a simulator, it was hard to forget that there were four walls just five or six steps away - but in a pod, you lost your awareness of the world around you

For the next twenty-four hours, Sala tried to think clearly

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Beatrice had sent me four big books about painting

In twenty-four hours, you have grown so much older.'

But it was only four months

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Two blocks from her house, intending to buy a quart of milk and a loaf of whole-wheat bread, Tina stopped at a twenty-four-hour market and parked in the dry yellow drizzle of a sodium-vapor light, beside a gleaming, cream-colored Chevrolet station wagon

On four or five occasions during the past two weeks, she had taken the pistol from the nightstand and searched the place, room by room, but she hadn't found anyone

From that, she moved up through a series of similar positions in larger lounges, then in small showrooms that seated four or five hundred in second-rate hotels with limited show budgets

If Magyck! Was a hit and packed the showroom for four or five years, as sometimes happened with successful Vegas shows, she'd be a multimillionaire by the end of the run

Joel was an odd little man: five-feet-four, slightly chubby but not fat, with curly brown hair that appeared to have frizzed and kinked in response to a jolt of electricity

The Pyramid had been built at a cost in excess of four hundred million dollars, and the owners had made certain that every last dime showed

And in just four hours Magyck! Would premiere.

Eva was twenty-nine, seventeen years younger than Joel, and at five foot eight, she was also four inches taller than he was

She was about to head for the den when she noticed something odd about four framed eight-by-ten photographs that were grouped on the wall above the sofa

This display had always contained six pictures, not just four

All four of the remaining photos were swinging back and forth on the picture hooks that held them

The legs at the foot rose three or four inches before crashing back into the casters, that had been put under them to protect the carpet

"But if you just put your name on our work list, we'll most likely have a man there by four o'clock this afternoon, tomorrow morning at the latest

"It's only a quarter to four."

But we get off at four today - New Year's Eve."

"You go home at four with the others."

Tina returned to her inspection of the carpenter's bill, and Angela was back at five minutes past four with thirty pages of data.

It's a four-day weekend

The group went into the mountains in a four-wheel-drive minibus built for use on back roads in the winter

"Somehow, for some reason, they drove the bus more than four miles off the main highway, four miles off and a hell of a long way up, right up to the damn clouds

The second week, four nights

"Probably not even then, what with the four-day weekend."

Maybe it will after four years

Eventually he fell asleep, but at four o'clock in the morning, he was awakened by cries of distress.

By four o'clock, he was home again, working in the kitchen

He had just opened a bottle of balsamic vinegar and poured four ounces into a measuring cup when he heard movement behind him.

On the first, a black carriage, drawn by four black horses with evil glaring eyes, rushed along a night highway, beneath a gibbous moon, and a headless man held the reins, urging the frenzied horses forward

In one smooth lightning-fast movement, Elliot seized the measuring cup into which he had poured four ounces of vinegar a few minutes ago, and he threw the contents in Vince's face

Three or four minutes later, the doorbell rang - one, two, three, four times, insistently.

Tina passed a leafy green plant, a four-foot-high schefflera that she had owned since it was only one-fourth as tall as it was now, and she had the insane urge to stop and risk getting caught in the coming explosion just long enough to pick up the plant and take it with her

The tires squealed, and the car slid sideways, but the superb suspension and responsive steering held the Mercedes firmly on four wheels all the way through the arc.

Nearly everyone was engaged in animated conversations, couples and cozy groups of friends, enjoying themselves, looking forward to the remaining three days of the four-day holiday.

A large four-masted topsail schooner filled a five-gallon jug

Here was a four-masted barkentine with sails taut in a perpetual wind; and here was a mid-sixteenth-century Swedish kravel

Because it was important for the men who worked in the large room to have an unobstructed view of the smaller inner chamber at all times, four angled ceiling vents in both rooms bathed the glass in a continuous flow of warm, dry air to prevent condensation and clouding

It was an immense, pseudo-Colonial house, perched prominently on top of a hill, on a three- or four-acre property, and conveniently next door to a large, nondenominational cemetery

Instinctively he whipped the pistol in front of him and squeezed off four rounds

They abandoned the Chevrolet in a public parking lot, four blocks from Harrah's.

"A Jeep or an Explorer - anything with four-wheel drive," Tina told Elliot

"It's a damned good thing we have four-wheel drive."

At four-thirty, they obtained a strong, positive identification from a maid at Harrah's.

Jeeps, Land Rovers, and other four-wheel drive vehicles - eight in all - were lined up in front of the low building, side-by-side in the falling snow.

One passageway extended fifty feet to the left of the door and fifty feet to the right; on both sides were more doors, all shut, plus a bank of four elevators on the right

The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.

According to the indicator board above the doors, they were on the fourth of four levels

The light on the indicator board changed from four to three to two, and the air inside the lift became so frigid that Tina's breath hung in clouds before her

This level was the same size as the one on which they entered the complex: more than four hundred feet on one side, and more than one hundred feet on the other

They call the stuff 'Wuhan-400' because it was developed at their RDNA labs outside of the city of Wuhan, and it was the four-hundredth viable strain of man-made microorganisms created at that research center.

For one thing, you can become an infectious carrier only four hours after coming into contact with the virus

Once infected, no one lives more than twenty-four hours

They chose it as one of four of my novels to be developed as two-hour TV movies that would launch Popcorn, Sugar Babies, Dum Dums, and Dean or whatever the series would have been titled

I was to be an executive producer of the show and the writer of one of the first four teleplays, which would be based on my novel Darkfall

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Tea and talk at four-thirty.'

Then I saw that the hands of the clock pointed to a quarter to five, which meant that it was really half-past four, so I got up and went to the sitting room

When I returned at about a quarter to four, Mary told me that Mr Redding was waiting for me in the study.

Colonel and Mrs Protheroe had tea at four-thirty

She counted her fingers, 'One, two, three, four, five, six - yes, and a possible seven

I had gone to the front door with him, and on the hall table, I saw four notes

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the Martian machines appeared, far away over the low trees towards Chertsey

Then I saw the four of them carrying the remains of the fallen one between them, now clear and then later faint through a curtain of smoke, moving away from me across a great space of river and fields

A few minutes later these three were joined by four other Martians, each carrying a thick black tube

At the same time four of the fighting-machines, also carrying tubes, crossed the river, and two of them, black against the western sky, came into sight of myself and the curate as we hurried along the road to the north.

He said he would catch up with them by about half-past four in the morning, but it was now nearly nine and there was no sign of him.

There was also a notice which said that within twenty-four hours bread would be given to the hungry people

Our situation was so strange and unbelievable that for three or four hours, until the dawn came, we hardly moved

In twenty-four hours they did twenty-four hours of work.

But no human being saw as much of them as I did and lived to tell the story, and I can say that I have seen four, five or six of them slowly performing the most difficult work without sound or any other signal

Think of four or five of them with men inside, firing Heat-Rays back at the Martians!'

I stayed with them for four days after my recovery

There were four of us - George, William Samuel Harris, myself (my friends call me J), and Montmorency

There are only twenty-four hours in the day, and you sleep most of that time

(George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o'clock to four o'clock, Monday to Friday, except on Saturdays

We pulled up the canvas cover and all four of us looked out at the river

We worked hard for half an hour, but we peeled only four potatoes

Harris fought with courage for four hours

He had found me a job in Cumberland in the north of England: four months teaching drawing to the nieces of Mr Frederick Fairlie of Limmeridge House

'Yes, but tomorrow I'm going to Cumberland for four months.'

I had only known Sir P for four months.

The driver stopped the bus and asked four black people to stand up

The history of modern feminism comes in four "waves" - or movements

In the United Kingdom, more than three out of four businesses pay men more than women

In 2017, four of the countries with the highest number of women in their parliaments were in Central and South America

Valentina and four other women had eighteen months of lessons

She showed everyone that a woman could be a housewife and still win gold medals! In 1999, Fanny Blankers-Koen was voted Female Athlete of the Century because of her four gold medals at the 1948 Games.

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