• By the time he had gone through the four hundred hives on the lot, only forty were still standing.

    NEWYORKER: Stung

  • In A:CM, an official sequel to the Aliens saga, we play Corporal Winter, one of the four hundred Marines dispatched to learn the whereabouts of the Marines stranded on LV-426.

    FORBES: Hands-On First Look at 'Aliens: Colonial Marines'

  • The four-hundred-metre race is a descendant of the 440 four hundred and forty yards, or two furlongs which was run at almost every Olympics until 1952.

    NEWYORKER: Glory Days

  • He spent years analyzing the teams behind four hundred and seventy-four productions, and charted the relationships of thousands of artists, from Cole Porter to Andrew Lloyd Webber.

    NEWYORKER: Groupthink

  • The four-hundred-pound delivery was from I.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • 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'

  • That year a stunning eight Midlanders made the first Forbes Four Hundred list.

    FORBES: Optimistic on oil

  • Banded with steel and coiled with thick rope at the ends, the Oak weighed four hundred and fifty-nine pounds it took five large men to carry it onstage.

    NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World

  • The big winner is William Shakespeare, with four hundred and fifty-five, topping even the Yahwist and his co-authors, the wordsmiths who churned out the Bible but managed to come up with only four hundred quotable passages.

    NEWYORKER: Notable Quotables

  • 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

  • Over the last four months, several hundred shortwave radios have been confiscated by the authorities, who say that have been illegally donated by Western organisations.

    BBC: Zimbabwe MDC politician Sten Zvorwadza beaten in Mbare

  • The Army claims to have destroyed more than four hundred methamphetamine labs in the region.

    NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead

  • 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]

  • The fact is that, after twelve years and four hundred billion dollars, the Americans have built very little that is likely to stand on its own after they depart.

    NEWYORKER: General Principles

  • On November 10th days before the meeting in which Son told Adelson that he wanted to buy Comdex the three children signed documents agreeing to sell their shares to their father, at a price based in part on a valuation of the entire company of four hundred and thirty million dollars, half of what it sold for several months later.

    NEWYORKER: The Brass Ring

  • 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'

  • And also, the budget calls for the hiring of several hundred thousand workers over the next four years.

    WHITEHOUSE: Detailing the FY2011 Budget

  • Ferozi told me that the bank gave the Karzai campaign four million dollars, meaning that the two hundred thousand dollars in the briefcase described by Zakhilwal was just the beginning.

    NEWYORKER: The Afghan Bank Heist

  • All four hundred of the organisations funded by the Welsh Government have been gone through with a fine toothcomb.

    BBC: Following the money - and wincing

  • Four hundred of the very wealthiest Americans have more wealth than 155 million Americans on the other end of the scale combined.

    FORBES: Michael Moore Speaks in Wisconsin: 'America is not Broke'

  • 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

  • In a squat you could get somebody coming round at three in the morning with four or five hundred pounds worth of crack, saying have a pipe.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Addicts back scheme that saves

  • Four hundred of the Church's members who were married on Sunday chose to have their partners selected for them by Mrs Hak, something her late husband also did.

    BBC: First mass Moonie wedding since founder's death

  • The four albums, containing several hundred photographs, appear to show the mother and daughter enjoying a normal, loving relationship with the majority showing a smiling Millie playing with her toys.

    BBC: Millie Martin

  • Then, in November, he crashed, rolled off the hillside on black ice, a delivery of beer and lumber spilled four hundred feet, and that was the end of his reign as town hero.

    NEWYORKER: Or Else

  • The HP board had looked at a hundred candidates and narrowed the list to four.

    FORBES: All Carly, all the time

  • 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

  • The ruling party still controlled three hundred and eleven out of four hundred and fifty-four seats, but the strong showing of the Islamists was a shock.

    NEWYORKER: The Contenders

  • It was unclear what exactly the Assistance Fund did, as there were a hundred and forty-four establishments with the same generic name.

    NEWYORKER: Net Impact

  • One-hundred percent of the four citizens 18 and older (the "bio children") are non-Hispanic whites.

    CNN: I see America's diverse future--in my house

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