four hundred
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When it opened in 1914, McCullough writes, the waterway was “the culmination of a heroic dream of four hundred years and of more than twenty years of phenomenal effort and sacrifice.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Hunted to extinction in Britain four hundred years ago, beavers have in the last two decades been making a comeback.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
"For the past four hundred years, each generation of astronomers has inhabited a new universe," Panek writes.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2024
Analysing DNA from both breast tissue and white blood from over four hundred breast cancer patients, they made several important discoveries providing new light on the subject.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 7, 2023
“Then, of course, that sell order didn’t go through and there was a merger and so you were, at that point, worth something in the neighborhood of four hundred and eighty thousand dollars.”
From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen
