• Mrs Johnson had worked at Cromer's Homebase store since it opened four years ago.

    BBC: Keith Johnson

  • The Barcelona to Madrid line, which opened four years ago, has also seen an increase in ridership.

    BBC: Corporate rail travel on the rise

  • This year McDonald's will add only 150 new U.S. stores, down sharply from the 1, 100 it opened four years ago.

    FORBES: Beyond burgers

  • This year McDonald's will add only 150 new U.S. stores, half of what Wendy's will do and down sharply from the 1, 100 it opened four years ago.

    FORBES: Beyond Burgers

  • The project was conceived, designed, constructed, and opened in four years, whereas the Heathrow terminal, from conception to completion, took twenty years. (That building, by Richard Rogers, is a somewhat compromised version of his original design far better than the rest of Heathrow, but much less interesting than Rogers meant it to be.) These widely divergent timetables are not a matter of Chinese efficiency versus British dallying: the British, like the Americans, pay the price of democracy.

    NEWYORKER: Situation Terminal

  • Gold and silver market bulls are beginning to get somewhat concerned that recent U.S. economic data that has been a bit stronger than expected could prompt the Federal Reserve to begin to shut its monetary stimulus spigot that has been opened wide for four years.

    FORBES: P.M. Kitco Metals Roundup: Gold Ends Solidly Lower on Bearish Outside Markets, Fresh Technical Selling

  • Retired Nevada state archivist Guy Rocha said the facility opened in 1930, four years after a lightning-sparked explosion virtually destroyed the Lake Denmark Naval Ammunition depot in northern New Jersey, about 40 miles west of New York City.

    NPR: Mortar Explosion In Nev. Kills 7 NC Unit Marines

  • Resort pioneer James Baillie opened Southern Ocean Lodge four years ago offering dramatic but low impact on the environment architecture and equally dramatic views of the surrounding cliffs and waves crashing ashore. (Riding those waves while I was there assorted dolphins.) All rooms face those ocean views, which become almost mesmerizing in winter, with storms rolling in as you sit by the living room fireplace staring out.

    FORBES: Australia Ups Its Luxury Level With Posh Hotels And Nature Retreats

  • Four years ago he opened his own shop to advise oil companies, governments and investment banks.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Lake Highlands coach Jay Higgins is the longest-serving prep baseball coach in Texas, having taken the job in 1967 (four years after the school opened), scored 783 wins and 25 state playoffs trips (including last year).

    FORBES: 53-0: A high school baseball score, a lesson in rich and poor

  • Fears that Sir Cyril Smith was sexually abusing boys were reported to police four years before an investigation was opened, it has been claimed.

    BBC: Cyril Smith abuse claims: 'Police alerted in 1965'

  • The news comes as new BBC research shows six new supermarkets have opened in Somerset in the last two years and four more applications are pending.

    BBC: Frome residents campaign against new supermarket

  • Their menus proved so popular that after four years Hidden Kitchen stopped cooking home dinners and opened Verjus, a restaurant on the edge of the Marais.

    BBC: Vive l����volution in Paris

  • The Millers were able to find a suitable storefront for their own business selling homemade ice pops, which began four years ago at area farmers' markets and opened at 64 Main in 2010.

    WSJ: Cold Spring Adds to Mix of Shops

  • The suspension bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County opened to vehicles on May 28, 1937, a little more than four years after construction began.

    CNN: Golden Gate Bridge turns 75 with party

  • What we've done over the last four years in the last parliament was that we've opened that up to other faiths as well and that's one of the other changes.

    BBC: News Online

  • He opened for business in 1976, having just returned from Asia, where he had spent four years honing his craft.

    NEWYORKER: The Power of Nothing

  • The gradual liberalisation of the economy from 1991 helped to motivate change, but the main catalysts were a slump in demand four years ago, competition from China, and the threat of markets being opened up by the World Trade Organisation.

    ECONOMIST: Manufacturing in India

  • As Mr Hickey points out, a factory that Sealed Air opened in Mexico was expected to be far less productive than one in America, but within four years had caught up.

    ECONOMIST: How much longer can America keep increasing productivity?

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