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Meaning four meaning
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Synonyms four synonyms
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Examples four examples
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Simple sentences
Jorge is able to speak four languages.
The Olympic Games are held every four years.
Four times five is twenty.
There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, fall and winter.
I have been studying French four years now.
It's four against you. You'll be beaten up.
There were four pieces of furniture in the room.
One in four consumers thinks that prices will continue to rise in the future.
When I moved to the United States four years ago, I had problems adapting to a new language and culture.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, six hundred, seven hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred, one thousand.
Madison's first four years were not easy.
I am four months pregnant.
My sister-in-law had four children in five years.
The meeting will start at four o'clock sharp.
Hanako has attended an American college for four years.
Four families were killed in the fire.
Our rent is four times as much as it was ten years ago.
We are a family of four.
The rain lasted four days.
I'd like the most inexpensive room you have for four nights.
There are four seasons in a year.
A day has twenty-four hours.
The meeting broke up at four.
In no country other than England, it has been said, can one experience four seasons in the course of a single day.
You've got another four day's journey before you reach Moscow.
If I have to go to Kyoto once more, I will have visited it four times this year.
Movie subtitles
Risk: Level Four.
Dammit. four on one.
The very nearest star to us is four light years away.
They could send us a signal, in four years' time it would get here, and then we could reply eight years later to them.
It has four lines and little triangles on the ends.
For three or four months, your disease will not come back.
It has only these four strings and a board for its trunk..
Joshua's six, Olivia's four.
Basically. Four people are gonna have a second shot at life today, and three people are willing to put their lives on the line. all because of Illyana.
When's the last time you saved four lives in a single day?
Four harvest and three transplants in the next few hours before the final kidney goes to St. Donald's children's hospital.
I promised four patients they were getting off dialysis today.
Is this who you want leading your city for another four years?
Uh, no. Let's go with four this time.
You can see four spiral arms.
So, can I put you down for the usual 10 cases? Uh, no. Let's go with four this time.
Detention for all four of you.
All right, like, four hours on Sundays, that is it.
I'll pick four members from my platoon to help, plus me, as I said.
Panels three and four are next.
Now starting to purge panels three and four.
Four more, go.
Four months locked up.
Four months ago, she signaled to one of our assets that she had a willingness to talk about a secret weapons program.
I tailed him here four hours ago.
She disappeared four years ago.
The collar was tightened with the help of four taut ropes.
It was a stupid thing to do. But four days suspension for getting kids peanut butter sandwiches?
Don't you? Four days later, Johnny came back from his suspension.
Grade four boys are in too.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
There are two - four - six - eight - ten.
Four in the hall.
And four are having lots of fun, sliding down the stairs.
They might wonder why four grown men went on holiday together, saying they were going to Spain and actually ending up in Morocco.
They can't just shoot four blokes who just happened to go on holiday together.
Four hours now.
Four's going in now.
Four people are gonna have a second shot at life today, and three people are willing to put their lives on the line. all because of Illyana.
News and current affairs
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen attributed the European crisis to four failures - political, economic, social, and intellectual.
It was Japan, the high-tech country par excellence (not the latter-day Soviet Union) that proved unable to take adequate precautions to avert disaster in four reactor blocks.
Foremost are the four freedoms of the single market; free movement of goods, services, people and capital.
Fossil fuels account for more than four-fifths of the world's energy diet.
First, Europe and South America are more dominant than four years ago and remain the unchallenged great powers of international soccer.
On average, per capita income in the countries that are the source of these investments is four times higher than in the target countries.
Fifty-four years after the announcement of the Schuman Plan that began to knit together the economies of France and Germany, the EU now has 25 countries and a population larger than that of the United States.
The US rate is two-thirds higher than that in the United Kingdom, and up to four times the rate in the Nordic countries.
A few years earlier, as America rushed to lock up ever more of its population for ever-pettier offenses, the absolute size of its incarcerated population surpassed that of China - despite China's population being more than four times that of America.
Similarly, those who speak of American hegemony after 1945 fail to note that the Soviet Union balanced US military power for more than four decades.
The US homicide rate is roughly four times that of comparable societies in Western Europe, and Latin America's homicide rates are even higher than in the US (and dramatically higher than Asian countries at roughly the same income level).
And yet, particularly since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that is precisely what has happened, owing to four key mistakes made by the Bush administration.
WWII's victors had to rule Germany for four years and Japan for longer.
Hong Kong University, for example, has extended its undergraduate programs from three years to four.
African farmers produce roughly one ton of grain per hectare, compared with more than four tons per hectare in China, where farmers use fertilizers heavily.
The renminbi is by no means in the same league as the SDR basket's four incumbent currencies.
The ICC has opened four active investigations, issued public charges against twelve people, and to date secured custody of four.
These assumptions turned out to be wrong, as export prices fell steadily over four decades.
Fifty-four of them were civilians who didn't take part in the fighting, and 25 were under 18 years of age.
For the last four years, the LDP had shown itself to be utterly unresponsive to the key issues of popular concern: pensions, unemployment, and the fraying social safety net.
In view of this experience, Nigeria now plans to abolish the naira in favor of joining a monetary union with four or five other West African countries (The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and perhaps Liberia).
And when the East African Community with its five members (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) re-emerges as scheduled, the number of currencies will be reduced by another four.
The fact that national governments referred three of the Court's four active cases - and that in each of those cases only armed rebels or government opponents have been charged so far - has contributed to this perception.
Of the four withdrawals, arguably the 1982-1984 American intervention in Lebanon marks the closest parallel to Iraq today.
It is bigger than America's, almost twice the size of China's, and between four and five times the size of India's.