The phrase "about four stages" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when estimating or approximating the number of stages in a process or sequence.
Example: "The project consists of about four stages, each requiring careful planning and execution."
Alternatives: "approximately four stages" or "roughly four stages".
There is no obvious reason that those same ideas about history and inevitability and the greater wisdom of those who "get it" should not lead to something unpleasant today--even if, today, the certitudes about three stages and historical inevitability and all the rest can be found on the right and not the left.
She's about three stages ahead of me, but in the last week has given me some extremely valuable advice.
Chandra, a worldly and wealthy college roommate who is about three stages beyond burning sage on the wellness spectrum, recommends Mary try an expensive, one-on-one "healing work" program called PAKing, or Pneuma Adaptive Kinesthesia, to deal with her pain.
Christopher Nolan's own prestige takes a knock with this fantastically boring and self-important movie about two stage magicians in Edwardian London, starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale.
I've seen about five stage productions, but it is a radio play.
It concerns a filmmaker by the name of Edgar Bruno Putzuluu), who is drumming up interest in a film about the four stages of love: meeting, passion, separation, reconciliation.
Think about all conversations in four stages: Stage one is a simple opening line.
How about the four stage game?
During a 50-year operational period, foundation soils under the footing would roughly go through about four thermal stages under a combined effect of the thermosyphon cooling and climate warming: a rapid cooling stage in the first to 5th year, a stable stage in the 6th 15th year, a rapid warming stage in the 16th 35th year and a slow warming stage after the 35th year.
