Below you will find example sentences with "four hours". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Four Hours in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: hours
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 20
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.7 words

Words in this phrase

four hours

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • four can mean: A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••) Very common word
  • hours can mean: plural of hour Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 16 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

break every four hours and free 1× car drive four hours wait in 1× drills of four hours each a 1× drive back four hours just two 1× for approximately four hours and up 1× from roughly four hours and eight 1× hours but four hours also works 1× hours ended four hours later as 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a closed refrigerator 1× a further one 1× all shuttle buses 1× and a dishwasher 1× areas across the 1× it covered 515km 1×

Common sentence endings:

120 volt ac 1× a closed freezer 1× a half hours 1× allotted for travel 1× every 24 hours 1× every eight hours 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

two 6× per 5× eight 4× service 3× week 3× minutes 3× six 3× now 2× standard 2× studies 2× rent 2× drive 2×

Related phrases

four counts four years rating four four weeks two hours four times four seasons four goals four days four rebounds

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around hours:

two hours 20×

Just before it in the phrase index:

four hits four goals four games four decades four days four counts

Just after it in the phrase index:

four hundred four innings four points four quarters four rebounds four rounds

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

four counts four years four weeks four times four seasons four goals

Same ending:

two hours eight hours additional hours

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "four hours" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.7 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as break every four hours and free, car drive four hours wait in, two, per and eight stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with four counts, four years, rating four and two hours, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with four hours

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Six hours here, four hours there. (6 words)

It covered 515km in just four hours - down from the previous six-and-a-half hours. (16 words)

It’s not like a hungry dog who has to feed every three hours or four hours. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

SRF units were supposed to be authorized at 100% strength, receive priority training funds and modern equipment citation as well as having more training and doing 58 hours of drills of four hours each a year rather than the standard 48 hours of drills. (44 words)

Various studies have confirmed that the virus can remain viable in the air for up to three hours, on copper for up to four hours, on cardboard up to 24 hours and on plastic and stainless steel up to 72 hours. (41 words)

The new law also reduces the minimum instructional hours that must be spent teaching only English, math, science and social studies/history from roughly four hours and eight minutes per day to roughly three hours and 47 minutes per day. (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

The program now requires students to complete four hours of service and four supplemental service modules per week, a reduction from the standard eight hours of service per week with four hours allotted for travel.

Various studies have confirmed that the virus can remain viable in the air for up to three hours, on copper for up to four hours, on cardboard up to 24 hours and on plastic and stainless steel up to 72 hours.

But, it’s important to keep in mind the kinds of resources required to abruptly rent a car, drive four hours, wait in line for two hours, and drive back four hours just two days before rent is due.

The new law also reduces the minimum instructional hours that must be spent teaching only English, math, science and social studies/history from roughly four hours and eight minutes per day to roughly three hours and 47 minutes per day.

SRF units were supposed to be authorized at 100% strength, receive priority training funds and modern equipment citation as well as having more training and doing 58 hours of drills of four hours each a year rather than the standard 48 hours of drills.

And a dishwasher load can take anywhere between one and four hours, depending on the setting you pick – so let’s say it takes 1.5 or two hours (to get a ‘happy medium’ average).

Areas across the Gaza Strip have suffered electricity blackout for days, with some areas only receiving four hours of power every 24 hours.

It’s not like a hungry dog who has to feed every three hours or four hours.

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Over the course of a week, this adds up to around four hours and 30 minutes, and more than 230 hours in a single year for the typical full-time worker.

Six hours here, four hours there.

The battery system is capable of supplying the grid with 36 megawatts of power for four hours, or 144 megawatt-hours in total.

The court heard how Harper had failed to attend probation and only done four hours of 130 hours unpaid work.

Toyota says the Prius Prime can fully charge in about four hours on 240 volts, or 11 hours on household 120-volt AC.

A closed refrigerator can hold food for approximately four hours and up to 48 hours in a closed freezer.

A further one in seven said that two hours was their limit – meaning that almost two-thirds (65 per cent) are not prepared to go longer than four hours.

It covered 515km in just four hours - down from the previous six-and-a-half hours.

Talking about the gruelling hours and the diet provided, Ian said: "You sometimes worked 16-hour shifts but you got a break every four hours and free food that was basically a diet of salt and sugar.

The programme, which was to take two hours ended four hours later as supporters covered him with gulal and insisted on offering him snacks every time he stopped.

To which some others who are fans of the trick replied by writing: “Best to leave it overnight (six to eight hours) but four hours also works.

All shuttle buses are now cleaned every one to four hours, and terminals are cleaned three times every eight hours.

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