• Figures from the council said Surrey had less than four in a hundred young people classified as Neet, compared with the national average of more than six in a hundred.

    BBC: Surrey County Council targets firms in apprentice drive

  • Or to the designs of an ancient plot set in motion exactly four hundred years ago in the library of the King of Bohemia.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

  • In the last thirty days before the election, Whitaker and Baxter advertised in four hundred newspapers and on five hundred billboards.

    NEWYORKER: The Lie Factory

  • By December, 2008, the Sterling partners had about four hundred million dollars in Sterling Stamos accounts and about five hundred and fifty million with Madoff.

    NEWYORKER: Madoff��s Curveball

  • Four hundred houses in east Lancashire are still without heating following a power cut on Tuesday.

    BBC: No heating for 400 Shear Brow homes after power cut

  • Currently, Variety Wholesalers owns several chains of discount stores, among them Roses, Maxway, Super 10, and Bargain Town, amounting to more than four hundred outlets in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic regions.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • He found that between January of 2002 and June of 2008 some nine hundred people in the two buildings accounted for more than four thousand hospital visits and about two hundred million dollars in health-care bills.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • Martha's blog has been read by almost eight million people in four months, while her Brazilian counterpart's page has attracted over two hundred thousand followers in less than four weeks.

    BBC: Scotland

  • We must act, knowing that today's victories will be only partial, and that it will be up to those who stand here in four years, and forty years, and four hundred years hence to advance the timeless spirit once conferred to us in a spare Philadelphia hall.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Four hundred other homes in the area will be demolished as part of Liverpool City Council's regeneration plans.

    BBC: Madryn Street

  • The OfficeTeam report is based on responses from over one-thousand senior executives at mid-to-large sized companies, along with replies from more than four-hundred workers employed in office environments.

    FORBES: March Madness Employee Productivity Problem Is Overstated, Yet Influences Corporate Change

  • The Australian left-hander, who began his English county career a decade ago at Sussex, added 28 to his overnight 75 to lodge his second Championship hundred in four innings.

    BBC: Nash denies Durham first victory

  • Four hundred primary schools in England deemed to be the weakest are to be turned into academies in a bid to drive up standards, the prime minister has announced.

    BBC: writing

  • It was only sixty-four pages, but it sold a hundred and fifty thousand copies in four months.

    NEWYORKER: The Lie Factory

  • If he manages to win this year, it is likely to be by less than that, which would make him the first President in a hundred and twenty-four years to win a second term by a smaller margin than in his initial election.

    NEWYORKER: The Second Term

  • Utopias (incidentally the coined word Utopia doesn't mean "a good place, " it means merely "a non- existent place") have been common in the literature of the past three or four hundred years, but the "favourable" ones are invariably unappetising, and usually lacking in vitality as well.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'All Art Is Propaganda'

  • Mr. KEITH LAMBERT (Mayor, Rifle, Colorado): Four thousand two hundred new residential units in a town of 9, 000.

    NPR: Cashing In on Economic Downturn

  • Two hundred twenty four people died in those blasts.

    CNN: Judge orders separate trial for one embassy bombing defendant

  • The first two days of the festival this year were held in the intricate 15th-20th century red sandstone Mehrangarh Fort, one of the largest in India, which looms four hundred feet above the blue city of Jodhpur.

    FORBES: Plan Now: A Royal Festival In India That You Shouldn't Miss

  • At least four hundred and fifty residents own shares in the onshore turbines, and a roughly equal number own shares in those offshore.

    NEWYORKER: The Island in the Wind

  • Four hundred thousand young pilgrims have arrived in Cologne so far.

    NPR: Pope Arrives in Cologne to Address World Youth Day

  • One patient had three hundred and twenty-four admissions in five years.

    NEWYORKER: The Hot Spotters

  • Brian, James, and Mark selected a team of two dozen SEALs from Red Squadron and told them to report to a densely forested site in North Carolina for a training exercise on April 10th. (Red Squadron is one of four squadrons in DEVGRU, which has about three hundred operators in all.) None of the SEALs, besides James and Mark, were aware of the C.

    NEWYORKER: Getting Bin Laden

  • In 1999, after seven prisoners tried to escape from Huntsville, Willingham and four hundred and fifty-nine other inmates on death row were moved to a more secure facility, in Livingston, Texas.

    NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

  • Mine was one of four licensed premises in a scattered district of three-hundred-odd souls.

    NEWYORKER: Fjord of Killary

  • At a hundred factories in 28 countries on four continents, Flextronics churns out half a million products daily--printers for Hewlett-Packard, cell phones for Ericsson and handhelds for Palm.

    FORBES: The Detour Economy

  • In New York, the stock market is down, investors are withdrawing assets from his fund, and he has borrowed four hundred million dollars to cover a hole in his balance sheet.

    NEWYORKER: Risky Business

  • The 2011 Budget Control Act, which raised the debt ceiling and created both the fiscal cliff and a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, which was supposed to find a way to steer clear of it, required four hundred and eighty-seven billion dollars in cuts to military spending, spread over the next ten years.

    NEWYORKER: The Force

  • The bar was draped to lend sobriety to the hearing, and the number of spectators seated on the dance floor was limited to four hundred, though several hundred more paid the Atlantiks janitor twenty pfennigs an hour for a chair in the garden, where they could hear the testimony on loudspeakers.

    FORBES: So You Think You Wouldn't Be Bamboozled By Lothar Malskat's Art Forgeries? [Book Excerpt #2]

  • Tough Mudder put on 35 races in the U.S. last year, but the biggest appears to be Spartan Race, which had four dozen races last year with well over three hundred thousand participants, and has 60 events planned for 2013, in formats now spanning four different distances from 3 to more than 15 miles.

    FORBES: New Year's Fitness Resolution: Try Adventure Or Obstacle Racing?

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