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

Four Times in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: times
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 22
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.5 words

Words in this phrase

four times

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
  • times can mean: plural of time Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Usage patterns

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

32 bars four times eight is 1× a further four times 1× and russia four times following the 1× average of four times every day 1× champagne almost four times more expensive 1× four times four times 1× four times four times in the 1× fourth is four times as hard 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

aside from cebu 1× each team plays 1× four times four 1× he confessed his 1× he represented the 1× in the same 1×

Common sentence endings:

45 cubic meters 1× and from fukuoka 1× and tuli tuipulotu 1× further four times 1× him four times 1× lost a fumble 1×

Context words

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

people 6× seven 6× tried 5× five 4× six 4× eight 3× expensive 3× larger 3× weekly 3× two 3× sacked 3× year 3×

Related phrases

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

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around times:

five times 18× york times 14×

Just before it in the phrase index:

four teams four sections four seasons four rounds four rebounds four quarters

Just after it in the phrase index:

four touchdowns four weeks four wins four years fourier transform fourth consecutive

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

four counts four years four weeks four seasons four hours four goals

Same ending:

five times york times ten times numerous times wait times modern times

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "four times" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 28.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 32 bars four times eight is, a further four times, people, seven and tried stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with four counts, four years, rating four, five times and york times, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with four times

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

Short example sentences

Washington also sacked Kelly four times and intercepted him four times. (11 words)

He confessed his love for her many times, and proposed marriage four times. (13 words)

Three times is three times as hard and a fourth is four times as hard. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

Most of them had tried one to four times, but 18 people said that they had tried five or six times; and 14 people said they had tried seven or more times, including seven people who said they had tried 10 times or more. (44 words)

Four times, four times in the last 48 hours, in the midst of all the darkness, I didn’t realize, but four times four people sent me passages of scripture and I didn’t realize what that meant until today. (40 words)

Research commissioned by a UK-based clothing retailer revealed that women engage in more repetitive negative thinking compared with men, and criticise themselves an astonishing 1,460 times per year – that’s an average of four times every day! (39 words)

Exclamation examples

Research commissioned by a UK-based clothing retailer revealed that women engage in more repetitive negative thinking compared with men, and criticise themselves an astonishing 1,460 times per year – that’s an average of four times every day! (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

And we have people who tried to register twice, three times, four times, five times, six times, seven times, eight times, and then we have the record one, ten times.

Four times, four times in the last 48 hours, in the midst of all the darkness, I didn’t realize, but four times four people sent me passages of scripture and I didn’t realize what that meant until today.

Most of them had tried one to four times, but 18 people said that they had tried five or six times; and 14 people said they had tried seven or more times, including seven people who said they had tried 10 times or more.

Up to that moment, the people shut up in those four crowded chambers were still alive, four times 750 persons, in four times 45 cubic meters.

Overall, this means Canon's printer ink is almost seven times more expensive than the champagne, almost four times more expensive than the whisky, and 1.6 times more expensive than the perfume.

To put that into perspective, India’s electorate is nearly four times larger than that of the United States, nearly 20 times larger than that of the United Kingdom, and seven times larger than that of Pakistan.

Three times is three times as hard and a fourth is four times as hard.

In the same period, drug treatment and testing orders were imposed in Aberdeen nine times, in Aberdeenshire 15 times and in Moray four times.

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Unfortunately, you can only play four times a day for free—after that, you’ll need a subscription to he New York Times’ Crossword section, which is separate from a regular Times subscription.

Aside from Cebu, Cebu Pacific flies 14 times weekly between Manila and Narita; five times weekly to and from Nagoya; four times a week between Manila and Osaka; and thrice weekly to and from Fukuoka.

Trump implored his legislative colleagues and countrymen to come “together” 13 times, referenced “our country” seven times, and referred to “our Nation” a further four times.

Each team plays six of the teams from the other two divisions in its conference four times (24 games), and the remaining four teams three times (12 games).

He represented the Soviet Union four times and Russia four times, following the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Kelly completed 28 of a Super Bowl–record 58 passes for 275 yards and two touchdowns, but was sacked four times, intercepted four times, and lost a fumble.

The group of 32 bars (four times eight) is itself repeated three or four times before a second reel is introduced.

Washington also sacked Kelly four times and intercepted him four times.

He confessed his love for her many times, and proposed marriage four times.

Los Angeles, which forced New York (4-4) to fumble four times and recovered three of them, sacked Wilson eight times, including 2½ by Bosa and two each by Khalil Mack and Tuli Tuipulotu.

Over the course of Barry’s 23-year tenure, Colorado reached the Sweet 16 six times, including a five-year stretch that saw them advance that far four times, including three consecutive appearances.

Research commissioned by a UK-based clothing retailer revealed that women engage in more repetitive negative thinking compared with men, and criticise themselves an astonishing 1,460 times per year – that’s an average of four times every day!

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