How To Use Four hundred In A Sentence
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February 25, 1862 and later, Congress had provided for the issue of four hundred and fifty million dollars of United States paper notes, which were commonly known as greenbacks or legal-tenders.
The United States Since the Civil War
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Each day, in visibility of over 30 metres, we encounter black and white-tipped reef and grey sharks, large pelagics like dogtoothed tuna and many of the four hundred other species of fish which inhabit these waters.
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There are almost four hundred references given in the book's concluding section, which is itself an important contribution.
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Four hundred species of flowers, including Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, flowering herbs, and the most compelling blossom of all - the bluebonnet, the Texas state flower.
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Three or four hundred kilos a year was not an exceptional intake for one family.
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And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
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They have always a mosque joining to them, and the body of the hann is a most noble hall, capable of holding three or four hundred persons, the court extremely spacious, and cloisters round it, that give it the air of our colleges.
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
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The Arboretum contains four hundred species of tree and shrub including walnut, beech, cedar, giant thuya, cypress and cork oak.
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The Turkish Ottoman Empire took control in 1516 and ruled the area for four hundred years.
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Most prominent among them were a tall man with a whorled sea-shell of a helmet and a four hundred pound enormity in gaudy ceremonial armor.
Virginity
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On December 5, as dockworkers and cartage men on distant St. Pierre marked the last day of Prohibition with a funeral cortege led by French and American flags at half mast, Sam Bronfman was already sitting on the four hundred thousand gallons of whiskey in the Rossville warehouse that had been part of the deal.
LAST CALL
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Burkes Peerage and Baronetage contains over one-hundred and eight thousand living persons and histories of two thousand four hundred families some stretching back as much as a thousand years.
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Ephron has named a price - a pretty stiff price; a shekel was a measure of weight, 11.5 grams; four hundred shekels would amount to 10.6 pounds of silver.
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3.10 About the same time Abbot Benedict ordered the transcription of sixty volumes, containing one hundred titles, for his library at Peterborough. 3.11 By 1244, in spite of losses in the fire of 1184, Glastonbury had a library of some four hundred volumes, historical books consorting with romances, Bibles and patristical works almost crowding out some forlorn classics. 3.12 Nearly half a century later
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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And thus they went so long till that they came to the Siege Perilous, where they found letters newly written of gold which said: Four hundred winters and four and fifty accomplished after the passion of our Lord Jesu Christ ought this siege to be fulfilled.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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His Ark is estimated by biblical scholars to have been four hundred and fifty feet long.
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We measured this polysyllabical echo with great exactness, and found the distance to fall very short of Dr. Plot's rule for distinct articulation; for the doctor, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows a hundred and twenty feet for the return of each syllable distinctly; hence this echo, which gives ten distinct syllables, ought to measure four hundred yards, or one hundred and twenty feet to each syllable; whereas our distance is only two hundred and fifty-eight yards, or near seventy-five feet, to each syllable.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
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Your amoebic dysentery correspondent is in bed, fully injected with emetine, having flown four hundred miles to Nairobi via Arusha from where the outfit is camped on the Serenea river on the far side of the Serengeti plain.
Hemingway on Hunting
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arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years.
Chapters from My Autobiography
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The eight men on the ground, still four hundred yards from the nearest fires, made their next decision in double-quick time.
BARRACUDA 945
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The term laborer as used in chapter five hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by chapter forty-seven of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen and by chapter twenty - one of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen, providing for the pensioning of laborers in the employ of cities and towns and as used in chapter four hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended by chapter three hundred and sixty-seven of the Pensioning of foremen, in - spectors, me - chanics, draw - tenders, assistant drawtenders and store - keepers in employ of cities and towns.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, King of England, and the King of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God.
The Prince and the Pauper
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His Ark is estimated by biblical scholars to have been four hundred and fifty feet long.
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Four hundred boats came up to Peel, and we hadn't less than ten maise apiece.
The Manxman A Novel - 1895
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This is an uncovered complex extending over an area of 38,000 square metres with over fifty tenants and includes a unique craft centre with four hundred craft booths under one roof.
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Four hundred tons of white beach sand has been spread across the shore, with palm fronds and bright sunshades offering a cool shelter to the revellers.
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It is calculated that the French of the sixteenth century had four hundred names for the parts genital and three hundred for their use in coition.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Hackenberg, a commercial beekeeper, had four hundred of his best hives in this particular beeyard.
'Fruitless Fall'
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I counted out the four hundred dollars in twenties to make sure it was all there.
The Last Goodbye. «
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So she journeyed home - gray clad among her flowers, drawn by four hundred hands - home to the cool nave between the long columns that were fingers raised, not in admonition, but in triumphant thanksgiving for mercy, majesty, and glory.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos
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In this varied musical life there appeared, with the cooperation and under the direction of Alfonso, the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of more than four hundred monophonic songs.
Archive 2009-07-01
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As he was to give him four hundred pounds, why did he, or Mr. Butt (for they are one and the same) take so much trouble, and go through so much circuity in shifting and changing the bank notes?
The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of
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The antidraft movement was starting to simmer, a pot that had been threatening to come to a boil ever since four hundred activists had picketed the Whitehall Street induction center, a couple of them even burning their draft cards.
The Lovers
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We only have about four hundred students in all, so the most we have in a class in fifteen or sixteen.
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With four hundred of his croppy boys we battered Lord Mountjoy,
Bold Belfast Shoemaker
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And if he should get to be master of a Virginia ship which will be very difficult to do a planter that has three or four hundred acres of land and three or four slaves, if he be industrious, may live more comfortably, and leave his family in better Bread, than such a master of a ship can . . .. beforehand, let him begin to chinch, that is buy goods for tobacco and sell. . .
Washington
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I put the over-under on e-mails to you complaining about O'Brien today at an even four hundred.
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But Little John was already gone to the saddle-bags, and returning he laid the Bishop's cloak upon the ground, and poured out of the portmantua a matter of four hundred glittering gold pieces.
Robin Hood
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Four hundred police were drafted in and last night the traffic appeared to be moving as a relief lane was opened on the opposite carriageway.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result of its academy-free status, English took a very different path from French, which, at least in France, has for nearly four hundred years been a language harnessed to some extent by the determinations of its academicians.
The English Is Coming!
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Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
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O Masrur, I will have of thee four pods of musk and four vases of civet324 and four pounds of ambergris and four thousand dinars and four hundred pieces of royal brocade, purfled with gold.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Mendoza's high altitude wine country, nestled in the foothills of the snow-capped Andes, has been Argentina's main wine producing region for more than four hundred years.
Laura Catena: From Asado (Barbecue) to Helado (Ice Cream): A Foodie Tour of Mendoza
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After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to shoot them execution with an automatic rifle and four hundred rounds of ammunition that he brought for the task.
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Just as four hundred years before, Jack Straw was an imaginary champion whose name inflamed the people to rise, so now Jack
The Carbonels
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An elevated tableland averaging about one hundred miles wide and extending four hundred miles north and south, it presents, approaching anywhere from the east or the west, an endless line of sharply escarped bluffs from one hundred to two hundred feet high that with their buttresses and re-entrant angles look at a distance like the walls of an enormous fortified town.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
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A recent study compiled evidence from various parts of the world concerning sea levels during an interglacial period about four hundred thousand years ago.
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He had to feed his family on the equivalent of four hundred pounds a month and, with five mouths to feed, he found this very hard.
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Drusilla, I want you and Portia to count out four hundred and nine denarii for Beatrice.
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Their balls had always been a hit with both the Four Hundred and the gossip-hungry press, so Mrs. Bradley-Martin rightly divined a gigantic ball held that winter would go over just as easily.
The Bradley-Martin Ball | Edwardian Promenade
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Four hundred dollars and one hundred thousand yen.
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`Altogether," Malcolm said proudly, `we can carry four hundred passengers, i n ocean-liner conditions.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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We passed through a gopura ninety feet high, next through a passage one hundred and seventy feet long, then through a small gopura, when we arrived at the large outer enclosure of the temple, four hundred and fifty by eight hundred feet.
Travels in the Far East
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But whenever I read it it calls forth for me an image that surely was nothing at all like what Eliot had in mind: that silent sea is, for me, the paleozoic one of the Cambrian or Silurian period of four hundred million years ago, and the owner of that pair of ragged claws is the curious mud-crawling creature known as a _eurypterid, _ a vaguely lobsterish thing that reached lengths of eight feet and more.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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When the cameras stopped rolling, an astonishing four hundred kilometers of film had been recorded, totaling over 240 hours of footage.
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They made up of venation and system about charity enterprise in four hundreds years in Macau.
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Four hundred male and female New Zealand police officers were invited to participate in a longitudinal research project, involving the completion of two questionnaire surveys.
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Thus uninstructed I went back to Houston and wrote a treatment about the Murrell rebellion that was more than four hundred pages long.
HOLLYWOOD
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Four hundred dollars and one hundred thousand yen.
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Oh! I did not do it by halves; I titivated myself up a bit, and went out and sold my spoons and forks and buckles for six hundred francs; then I went to old Daddy Gobseck, and sold a years interest in my annuity for four hundred francs down.
Paras. 1500–1599
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Four hundred years later the kayak is still unchanged in its basic design, because for its size it is as near as possible to being a perfect boat.
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The angry King took possession of the revenues of the archbishopric, and banished all the relations and servants of Thomas a Becket, to the number of four hundred.
A Child's History of England
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Horse, four hundred of the Cape Mounted Rifles, four hundred Kaffrarian
The Great Boer War
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Near four hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, king of England, and the king of France, it was decreed that two champions should fight together in the lists, and so settle the dispute by what is called the arbitrament of God.
Vietnam: Solutions
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It was a wooden figurehead carved in the shape of an embowed, cheerfully grinning dolphin—worn, wormholed, its paint flaking with age; the original figurehead of the schooner Enterprise, that Stephen Decatur sailed against the Barbary pirates at Tripoli, four hundred years before.
THE WOUNDED SKY
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The chase had taken ten days, during which Cortez walked at least one hundred twenty miles and rode more than four hundred on brown and sorrel mares.
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And she herself placed all her possessions, including four hundred centenaria [10] of gold, in a single ship and embarked on it some of those most faithful to her and bade them sail to Epidamnus, and, upon arriving there, to anchor in its harbour, but to discharge from the ship nothing whatever of its cargo until she herself should send orders.
Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
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We are going to undertake a new project, the expansion of the petro chem, which is two hundred thousand tonne today the production is going to be four hundred thousand tones within two years.
Moneycontrol Top Headlines
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Such were the sixty thousand trade unionists who met in St Peter's Fields in Manchester in August 1819 and were greeted by the yeomanry, who charged at them with sabres, killing 11 and wounding around four hundred.
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Four hundred other destitute families crowd a relief camp in a school a few kilometres up the road.
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And why I have begun this column with what seems like a chain of free association is something that will probably become only marginally clear to you when I tell you that it was triggered by the news, last year, of the discovery at the Natural History Museum in London of the oldest known insect fossil, embedded in a chunk of a crystalline rock from Rhynie, S.otland known as chert -- a fossil that dates from the very same S.lurian period, four hundred million years back, that saw the flourishing of the eurypterids that T.S. Eliot's "ragged claws" line unaccountably calls to my mind.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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They have no less regard in like sort to cherish medicinable herbs fetched out of other regions nearer hand, insomuch that I have seen in some one garden to the number of three hundred or four hundred of them, if not more, of the half of whose names within forty years past we had no manner of knowledge.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Four hundred workers at Molopo and Mmabatho Sun were laid off and subsequent negotiations between the new hotel management and
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It was located on an old country place of four hundred acres of pineland, with numerous springs, and the building was very large and handsome.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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He had four hundred dollars in his pocket. Billy had more.
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Add to his government profile that his ministry started in Galilee, which was known as a hotbed for its antigovernment positions, and Jesus had the profile in the Homeland Security Office of the Roman Empire as a right-wing, Bible-believing, hate monger who needed to be on the “watch list,” like four hundred thousand Americans are right now in Washington, DC.
Can America Survive?
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Four hundred years ago today, in 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was averted, miscreants brought to the fearsome justice of the age and a massive disruption to English history avoided.
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Four hundred were Conservatives out to cause mischief.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred years ago, like the slang of today, is permeated with that sombre, symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, now menacing.
Les Miserables
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Hence it was that when, about four hundred years later, King Antiochus promised to pay the expenses of that work, the huge cella, the surrounding columns in dipteral arrangement, and the architraves and other ornaments, adjusted according to the laws of symmetry, were nobly constructed with great skill and supreme knowledge by Cossutius, a citizen of Rome.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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As the train flew along, reaching sixty miles an hour at times, four hundred messages were sent.
SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution
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Four hundred species of flowers, including Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, flowering herbs, and the most compelling blossom of all - the bluebonnet, the Texas state flower.
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He said to him [R. Akiva]: “Rabbi, shall I give one such as this four hundred zuz?”
Akiva, Rabbi.
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And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
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In the cabin, I would enter a kind of hypersensitive trance that allowed me to average four hundred pages a day.
2009 June 04 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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Professor Langley is at work upon it with new and specially constructed apparatus, including a "bolometer" so sensitive that, whereas previous experimenters have thought themselves fortunate if they could get deflections of ten or twelve galvanometric divisions to work with, he easily obtains three or four hundred.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884
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And the brass of the offering was seventy talents , and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
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Next day, four hundred and fifty of the Montreal militia marched to Pointe Claire, and from thence to St. Laurent, which is situated in the rear of the Island of Montreal.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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For four hundred years, science and technology have exploited their seizure of power over nature.
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He had to feed his family on the equivalent of four hundred pounds a month and, with five mouths to feed, he found this very hard.
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The first rank of the enomoty was composed of four soldiers: as to the depth, although they had not been all drawn up alike, but as each captain chose, they were generally ranged eight deep; the first rank along the whole line, exclusive of the sciritae, consisted of four hundred and forty-eight men.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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The African elephant, I learned recently, requires four hundred fifty pounds of forage and fifty gallons of water every day, but the colossus of culture is far larger than the largest ever herd of these pachyderms.
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Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
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He had to feed his family on the equivalent of four hundred pounds a month and, with five mouths to feed, he found this very hard.
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On the right of the Irrawaddy is the river of Bassein, the mouth of it about one hundred and fifty miles from that of the Irrawaddy, and running up the country in an angle towards it until it joins it about four hundred miles up in the interior.
Olla Podrida
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That's the way it had been for over four hundred years, the mantle passing from father to son, the reason lost somewhere in time.
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Four hundred years after the death of Cleopatra, Egyptians - the heritors of the longest-lived society in history - had literally no idea what was contained in the Papyrus of Ani.
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Based on Virginia Woolf's glittering fantasia written as a love-letter to Vita Sackville-West, the story covers four hundred years of history.
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Four hundred years ago, he realized that if Copernicus was right—that the Earth orbits the Sun—they could show it by observing the 'parallactic motion' of the nearest stars.
Extra Star Found in the Big Dipper | Universe Today
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She had sent out well over four hundred invitations that afternoon.
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After the four hundred grams of war-rationed bread in Ivanovo, Leningrad seemed a gastronomic heaven.
A Mountain of Crumbs
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“Now, Sir, receive four hundred bastinadoes for your pains, and pay me 30,000 ducats; you will then take care in future how you give me advice.”
Travels in Morocco
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Four hundred dollars and one hundred thousand yen.
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a subsidy of four hundred thousand caroli, as the third part of the twelve hundred thousand granted by the states of the Netherlands, and the resistance of Ghent in opposition to the other three members of the province, will, of course, be judged differently, according as the sympathies are stronger with popular rights or with prerogative.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 02: Introduction II
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Four hundred athletes competed in eight different sports.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spanish dollars are everywhere current, and accounts are kept in dollars, sukus (imaginary quarter-dollars) and kepping or copper cash, of which four hundred go to the dollar.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Four hundred tons of heavy hydrogen in a real fusion reaction could instantly vaporize a city, but there was no concentrated heavy hydrogen in the building.
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Four hundred and fifty two vealers were offered and as mentioned quality was a big factor in the price, with vendors unable to finish a lot of them due to the dry conditions, best vealer made 233 cents.
Star News Group
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Mighty princes can afford to pay four hundred shekels for a cave and a field.
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These "Gates" are a high rocky conical elevation attached to a plain jutting into the bottom on one side of the river precisely opposite to the bluff rocky termination of a plain of considerable height, on the other side, but three or four hundred yards asunder; which gives to them the appearance of formidable gates, and they were thus named by Lewis and Clark.
Life in the Rocky Mountains
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The ice in the offing was of the "hummocky" kind, and drifting rapidly about with the tides, leaving us a navigable channel varying in width from two miles to three or four hundred yards.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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This one has been in the trade so long and nothing like it is found in the wilds of Persia or anywhere else, so it may be a sterile hybrid (and that means they've been hybridizing lilacs for around four hundred years!)
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Miss Baldwin, one of the vice presidents of the WOMAN'S ERA is also a member of the celebrated Cantabrigia, which numbers nearly four hundred and includes in its membership all of the many distinguished ladies of Cambridge.
The Woman's Era, Vol. 1, No. 2
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The Metropolitan has always stood as a stronghold of the African Methodist Episcopal Communion, but in the short space of sixteen months that Dr. Scott has been the faithful watchman on its walls, he has added over four hundred persons to its membership, lowered a debt of thirty-one thousand dollars to nineteen thousand, and financiered a fund of nearly two thousand dollars into the Church treasury.
The Sons of Allen: Together with a Sketch of the Rise and Progress of Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio.
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By now, every person who had been watching was at once confident that there were no coins left and curious as to why someone would bother to carry around exactly four hundred fifty pennies.
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weighing upwards of four hundred pounds," a huge feeder, and bouser in proportion, taking three potations, pottle-deep, at every meal.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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The team was like the "musher," lean and wild-eyed, after their four hundred miles of merciless driving.
Colorado Jim
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[22] This sum of twelve millions of drachmae, which is equal to three millions of shekels, i.e. at 2s. 10d. a shekel, equal to four hundred and twenty-five thousand pounds sterling, was Agrippa the Great's yearly income, or about three quarters of his grandfather Herod's income; he having abated the tax upon houses at Jerusalem, ch.
Antiquities of the Jews
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Originally, the equestrians were a burgess cavalry; but gradually all who possessed estates of four hundred thousand sesterces were liable to cavalry service, and became enrolled in the order, which thus comprehended the whole senatorial and non-senatorial noble society of Rome.
Ancient States and Empires
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With four hundred of his croppy boys we battered Lord Mountjoy
The Bold Belfast Shoemaker
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A cold southerly rain storm caught the newly shorn wethers and four hundred died because the cold congealed the fat around their kidneys.
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Four hundred years later Newmarket is still a fair way off the beaten track.
Champions Day has a brighter future at Ascot than at remote Newmarket
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A severe drought killed the first four hundred yams that he had planted from his own stores of a small crop the previous year.
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Next day, four hundred and fifty of the Montreal militia marched to Pointe Claire, and from thence to St. Laurent, which is situated in the rear of the Island of Montreal.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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Four hundred million women of childbearing age weigh less than 45 kilograms-their malnutrition is passed on to their infants.
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In the next year, Roche, which had all but abandoned iproniazid as an antitubercular, sold the drug to four hundred thousand presumably happy, or at least less unhappy, customers.
MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
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The British Galleries occupy about thirty-four hundred square meters of space on two floors.
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He is credited with the invention of moveable type in China some four hundred years earlier.
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Four hundred years ago, glass mirrors were as marvelous as starfish, toadstones and sapphires.
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And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, Ex. 12.40 cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Galatians 3.
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Colloquially we say “four hundred and sixty-three,” for example, but the convention in math is that “and” stands for a decimal: 463 is “four hundred sixty-three”, 4.63 is “four AND sixty-three hundreths.”
Pronouncing 2010 « Motivated Grammar
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Hence it has become a general custom to seize the brother, son, or some near relation or dependant of the different zemindars, as hostages for the security of the revenue: a great aumil will sometimes have three or four hundred of these hostages, whom he is obliged to confine in places of security.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
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It once happened that a man uncovered the head of a woman in the marketplace, she came before R. Akiva, and he obligated him to give her four hundred zuz [denarri; a denarius was half a biblical shekel].
Akiva, Rabbi.
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Trees from ten to fifteen feet in diameter and three hundred feet high are not uncommon, and a few attain a height of three hundred and fifty feet, or even four hundred, with a diameter at the base of fifteen to twenty feet or more, while the ground beneath them is a garden of fresh, exuberant ferns, lilies, gaultheria, and rhododendron.
American Forests
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He knew, however, that it might take too many days for it to march to Jaffa, so he gathered eighty knights, four hundred bowmen, and about two thousand Italian soldiers, and headed to the rescue.
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I went into a leasehold property at four hundred and fifty pounds rent per year.
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An Indian authority cited four and a half quintal (four hundredweight) of wood for an open-air cremation.
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Twenty feet below the bluff the oily flood of the Sutlej was swirling by in full spate, the bubbling brown surface strewn with ramage which was piling up against the great bridge of boats, four hundred yards long and anchored by massive chains, that spanned the river to the southern shore.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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The largest group landed in 1893 when four hundred camels and ninety-four men disembarked.
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Whenever I mention an activity any time in advance, whether it’s months or even years, my 5 year old boy will always say “how many sleeps is that”, with his favorite big number at the moment being sixty-four hundred.
Red
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An Act for granting a Royal Aid to the King's Majesty, of Twenty-four Hundred Threescore and Seventeen Thousand and Five Hundred Pounds, to be raised, levied, and paid, in the Space of Three Years.
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Four hundred volumes transcribed with the plodding pen! each word collated and each page diligently revised, lest a blunder or a misspelt syllable should blemish those books so deeply venerated.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
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Four hundred armed police raided an estate in west London last week.
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Four hundred years ago, Henry Hudson explored the river named after him, and laid the groundwork for the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
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In total, I had technically lost nearly four hundred dollars worth of money.
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`Someone loaded four hundred kilos of a very high-grade explosive into the back of his truck.
CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
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Four hundred million times a year, employees of a little-known company called NCO dial the telephone "just to talk.
ScrippsNews
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He had spent four hundred dollars in recovering one third of the stolen money, and had suffered the thief to outgeneral him.
The Mystery of Monastery Farm
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Goaded by two Wobbly speakers, four hundred workers from both shifts repaired to the Anderson Brothers mess hall, where they voted to strike, elected a committee to draw up a list of demands, and dispatched a delegation to pass the word to the work camps situated around the Boulder City townsite.
Colossus
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They enlisted four hundred recruits for the navy.
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I ask and command, whosoever may have my land, that he every year give to the domestics at Folkestone fifty measures of malt, and six measures of meal, and three weys [_heavy weights_] of bacon and cheese, and four hundred loaves, and one rother [_ox_], and six sheep ....
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
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I had handed the girl four hundred dollars and she gave me thirty eight thousand kwachas.
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I went into a leasehold property at four hundred and fifty pounds rent per year.
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When he stood for aedile, the number of registered electors was some four hundred thousand; but now those rolls had been revised by the censors, and with the extension of the franchise as far north as the River Po, the electorate had increased to almost one million.
Imperium
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If an electric discharge was capable of operating a coherer across three thousand miles of ocean, then, certainly, the electric discharges from the wireless station four hundred feet away could produce coherer effects on the bad joints in the vat-wiring.
THE ENEMY OF ALL THE WORLD
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Pas and his herd of takhi were standing some three or four hundred yards away.
Times, Sunday Times
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His time over 200m was four hundredths of a second behind first place.
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A city Or towu which has received any pay - be n'umu'd. "lent imdcr the provisions of chapter four hundred and Acts, 1906. —
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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The fame of his treatment spread, bringing four hundred visitors or so a year to swell the local income.
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`Altogether," Malcolm said proudly, `we can carry four hundred passengers, i n ocean-liner conditions.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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Two thousand four hundred and fifty-one children aged 3-59 months were randomly allocated to four groups to receive: three days of artesunate plus amodiaquine (AS+AQ) monthly, three days of AS+AQ bimonthly, one dose of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) bi-monthly or placebo.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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Four hundred and fifty pupils and 25 teaching staff are aided by 11 other salaried support colleagues.
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Four hundred years ago, Henry Hudson explored the river named after him, and laid the groundwork for the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
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One of his favourite haunts was the very end of the "coombe," which, -- sharply cutting down to the shore, -- seemed there to have split asunder with volcanic force, hurling itself apart to right and left in two great castellated rocks, which were piled up, fortress-like, to an altitude of about four hundred or more feet, and looked sheer down over the sea.
The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches
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`Altogether," Malcolm said proudly, `we can carry four hundred passengers, i n ocean-liner conditions.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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Four hundred odd people drifted in and out last week, and during this crazy summer, it's shaping up to be a welcome oasis of calm.
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Four hundred million years ago armor-plated fishes, the placoderms, swam along the sandy floor of oceans that once covered much of Australia.
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Lords and lordlings reined toward Mat, each followed by a bannerman and perhaps a dozen retainers, until he had four hundred odd of the Cairhienin.
The Fires of Heaven
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But in the whiskey ring operations the gauger might, for example, report four thousand gallons in four hundred packages of ten gallons each, when in reality there were four hundred packages of eighty gallons each.
CHASING the WHITE DOG
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Votes were passed for deposing the Four Hundred, and placing the government in the hands of the 5000, of whom every citizen who could furnish a panoply might be a member.
A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest
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The castellum is a rectangle, four hundred and sixty-five by seven hundred and four feet, and is surrounded by two deep ditches and by high parapets.
Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
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Four hundred tonnes were unknowingly imported by a Norfolk company and sold in Britain.
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He had four hundred dollars in his pocket. Billy had more.
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They have no less regard in like sort to cherish medicinable herbs fetched out of other regions nearer hand, insomuch that I have seen in some one garden to the number of there hundred or four hundred of them, if not more, of the half of whose names within forty years past we had no manner of knowledge.
Of Gardens and Orchards. Chapter III. [1587, Book II., Chapter 20
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Four hundred years later, the tales of the women flowered into this legend.
