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fours
noun
Plural of four
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Pietersen also shook hands with all the Leicestershire fielders before walking off with bat raised high, having scored 355 not out from 396 balls, including 36 fours and 15 sixes.
By the time his three-and-a-half hours in the middle had come to an end, caught in the deep, some 24 fours and two sixes had flown from the bat.
He hits a mighty ball, often with a low trajectory, some of his sixes simply muscled over the boundary: he too hit only seven fours but he struck four sixes besides in an innings of only 84 balls, the most remarkable six coming when somehow, from on one knee, he flayed Dwayne Bravo over the boundary backward of square on the offside.
Before we can discuss the finer points of why Michael Jackson kept booze in Pepsi cans when he was around kids, the real star of the show arrives, on all fours.
Rutherford was well past his half-century – 83 balls with three fours, two of them taking him to fifty – and the queue for the tea and cake in the Ladies' pavilion already stretching down the steps, when there was a round of applause from an excellent crowd and Moeen Ali trotted on to the field.
Amjad cracked four fours in his 20 but his innings ended when he edged to short third man off Stirling, who picked up another wicket three balls later when Swapnil Patil tamely flicked to midwicket.
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This modern version of a 19th-century derivative of all fours is still popular in the southern United States.
Having reached his 37th first-class century, he simply ground on and on, making his 176 from 350 balls with 14 fours.
(Rosenberg) Public Art ★ Thomas Hirschhorn: 'Gramsci Monument' (through Sept. 15) With the paid help of local residents, Mr. Hirschhorn has built a scruffy, ramshackle complex out of plywood, two-by-fours, blue tarps, brown tape and plexiglass on the grass outside the Forest Houses apartment complex.
THE evacuation, when it came, was not by helicopter from the embassy roof but a convoy of four-by-fours from the front gate.
These included two variations of the "missionary position", where the man is on top of the woman and facing her; two variations of the "doggy" position, where the man is behind the woman on all-fours, and the "spoon", which involves both participants lying cupped together on their sides.
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