"I had four doctors agree that this is the result of an accident, " Mr Bland said.
This was January 31, 1999, and at that point I had been playing for eight years in the NFL. Before that, I had played four years of college football.
"If I had a four-wheeler, I would have better marriage prospects in my village, " the young man said.
And at the same time, grateful that I had the four years.
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"I was particularly outraged as I had spent four years following these individuals and, at the moment of our greatest intelligence coup against them, an uninformed GS level had pooh-poohed our work and cost the lives of two U.S. diplomats, " he recalls.
Right then I knew I had "grown up" more in two years than the four I had spent in North Carolina.
When I got home for Christmas, I realized it had been four months since I'd spent more than four consecutive days at home.
The ATT store which I walked into had four agents all talking so busily among themselves that they provided me no service whatsoever when I appeared as the only customer in their store.
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Last week I was told I had to undergo four different tests to determine a diagnosis.
After I had built all four daily recurring actions into habits, I dramatically improved in my steadiness.
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At one point, I had three or four stories going at once, and I went over them in my head all day.
It didn't matter that I had planned that moment for the past four years, it didn't matter that I had done everything in my power to try and control the situation.
Earlier this evening I had a meeting with the last four leaders I mentioned -- from China, India, Brazil, and South Africa.
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So I had two Mercedes, four BMWs, a Corvette and three Porsches.
Elderly men and women would ask me how to cope with fear of dying, asking me even though at the ripe old age of twenty-four I had not ever experienced that feeling.
"I've been in my job three and a half years and I've had fewer than five letters or contacts from the public about this issue, whereas I've had three to four thousand contacts from members of the media, " he said.
"They asked me how many days it had been since I had eaten, I said four days - I thought they were being compassionate, " he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
World War II had been over for four months when I found myself in a courtroom with the degenerates who had been its architects.
Of the first nine races that I ran this year, in four of them Fernando had a significant car upgrade that I did not have.
"Michael and I have had two, three or four situations of this kind, " said Barrichello.
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During these two terms of service, I worked in four states that had been affected by disasters.
Four years ago I had the privilege of meeting Abby and her family and she has changed my life.
PTF, which I had the honour to lead for four years, conducted its affairs according to internationally accepted standards of accountability and transparency.
"When I was a little kid in 1950, clothes weren't so cheap, and I remember we only had three or four dresses and that was plenty for a middle-class girl, " Ms. Quan said.
During that time I spent a lot of time in Mexico, but the last four months, we had to be separated as I was in school, and she was pregnant.
By the time she was elected prime minister four years later, I had become a news reporter with BBC Northern Ireland.
As far as my stuff, I thought I had good enough to throw three or four scoreless innings, but obviously they battled a lot.
In another Damascus neighborhood, I met a family of four that had just arrived from Baghdad after receiving a warning from insurgents to abandon their house.
"They were people who were genuinely concerned that there was a man who was out of work who had four children and as I understand it, they tried to help him for no other reason than out of human compassion, " Clinton told reporters in the Oval Office.
"If it was the other way about, I would be hoping that Celtic had to play four games in a week, " said Smith.
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