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

Four Years in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: years
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 34
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 32.6 words

Words in this phrase

four years

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
  • years can mean: plural of year. Very common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

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

air force four years in the 1× also of four years 1× camera for four years so much 1× davin norgard four years coltan archer 1× day every four years therefore results 1× doing research four years of medical 1× during my four years with the 1× for those four years or about 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

adding a calendar 1× detroit man sentenced 1× for instance in 1× for select bachelor 1× for the grade 1× four of them 1×

Common sentence endings:

four years ago 2× all doctoral qualifications 1× and maximising savings 1× berendt two years 1× chances madrid said 1× every 400 years 1×

Context words

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

two 6× ago 5× five 4× increase 4× six 3× percent 3× sell 3× undergraduate 2× year 2× school 2× select 2× degrees 2×

Related phrases

years ago two years four counts five years consecutive years rating four four weeks recent years few years years old

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around years:

two years 20× five years 20× years old 20×

Just before it in the phrase index:

four wins four weeks four touchdowns four times four teams four sections

Just after it in the phrase index:

fourier transform fourth consecutive fourth down fourth highest fourth inning fourth largest

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

four counts four weeks four times four seasons four hours four goals

Same ending:

two years five years consecutive years recent years few years twenty years

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "four years" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 32.6 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as air force four years in the, also of four years, two, ago and five stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with years ago, two years, four counts, two years, five years and years old, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with four years

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

Short example sentences

Four of them are Nicholas Rodriguez's children, ranging from four months to four years old. (16 words)

If voters approve Measure II, term limits would increase from two consecutive terms of four years to three successive terms, also of four years. (24 words)

For the Grade 12s, this was their final action: Davin Norgard (four years), Coltan Archer (three years), Jaidyn Byron (three years) and Eric Berendt (two years). (26 words)

Longer example sentences

Maybe we will have four more years of an excellent president, one of the five or six best in our history, who will be even better now that he “knows the ropes” and has the All-Star team in place that he lacked four years ago. (46 words)

She said the alders simply approved a “status quo amount” this year, after giving the schools extra city funds for several years, through a 13 percent increase two years ago, a 5 percent increase three years ago and a 9 percent increase four years ago. (45 words)

So with four years left and a natural desire to leave the office in a better place than he found it — though many would argue he is already well on his way to that — what’s in store for the next four years? (43 words)

Question examples

So with four years left and a natural desire to leave the office in a better place than he found it — though many would argue he is already well on his way to that — what’s in store for the next four years? (43 words)

Example sentences (20)

For instance, in the United States, the tenure is four years; in the UK, it’s three to four years; in China, five years; in Germany, three to five years; and in France, four years.

Overall, it took four years of undergraduate, one gap year doing research, four years of medical school, and three years of residency (12 years total starting from undergraduate).

For select Bachelor degrees, post-study work rights will be increased from two to four years, three to five years for select Masters degrees, and four to six years for all doctoral qualifications.

It’s her family’s first Christmas apart, despite her husband’s four years in the Air Force, four years in the Texas Air National Guard and 10 years in the Coast Guard.

Adding a calendar day every four years, therefore, results in an excess of around 44 minutes for those four years, or about 3 days every 400 years.

For the Grade 12s, this was their final action: Davin Norgard (four years), Coltan Archer (three years), Jaidyn Byron (three years) and Eric Berendt (two years).

She said the alders simply approved a “status quo amount” this year, after giving the schools extra city funds for several years, through a 13 percent increase two years ago, a 5 percent increase three years ago and a 9 percent increase four years ago.

I used to work at Boots, and during my four years with the retailer (including four Black Fridays and four Boxing Day sales), I learned a trick or two about spotting the best deals and maximising savings.

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Four of them are Nicholas Rodriguez's children, ranging from four months to four years old.

Detroit Man Sentenced After Trying To Sell 4 Hand GrenadesA Detroit man has been sentenced to four years and four months in federal prison for possessing and attempting to sell four live hand grenades.

If voters approve Measure II, term limits would increase from two consecutive terms of four years to three successive terms, also of four years.

She commented, “And this is that sort of job, you know, it's the same people behind the camera for four years… So much life happens in those four years.

So with four years left and a natural desire to leave the office in a better place than he found it — though many would argue he is already well on his way to that — what’s in store for the next four years?

They are asking themselves why they should continue to speak out against Trump’s moral transgressions for the next four years when it didn’t make any difference the past four (or eight) years.

I for four years have been building the right partnerships and the right approaches to address the way our systems weren’t working in the past - but four years isn’t enough time to really set ourselves up for true success.

Maybe we will have four more years of an excellent president, one of the five or six best in our history, who will be even better now that he “knows the ropes” and has the All-Star team in place that he lacked four years ago.

Freddie, who is married with four children, had worked a teacher for more than 10 years, and was teaching in the primary school in Beluran for three to four years.

He's singing the same old song that didn't sell four years ago, and over those four years the demographics have gotten worse for his chances," Madrid said.

He walked away from the game after four concussions in his six years in the NFL, four years with the Cleveland Browns and two in Miami.

That policy, in place between 2011 and 2015, required temporary foreign workers to leave Canada after working here for four years and banned them from returning for four years, but many chose to stay illegally.

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