four-by-fours

Contractors in shiny white four-by-fours muscled farmers riding tractors to the side of the street.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

Contractors in shiny white four-by-fours muscled farmers riding tractors to the side of the street.

Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

If the posts are just four-by-fours, that's an incredible amount of weight concentrated on an area that's less than 25 to 37 square inches.

How to put that new deck on solid footing Tim Carter 2010

He leads her into one of the exam rooms and pulls out drawers holding culture swabs, speculums, guaiac cards, sterile lancets, cotton four-by-fours and gloves.

Healer Carol Wiley Cassella 2010

A 17% jump in Chrysler's sales in November has also given Fiat a boost because investors have seen it as a sign that the company's effort to revive the maker of Ram trucks and Jeep four-by-fours is working.

Fiat Split Gives Car Business New Options Gilles Castonguay 2010

"I find it distressing that that the popularity of four-by-fours has had such a noticeable correlative effect on environmental damage."

Charles Spencer King, British engineer who helped create Range Rover, dies at 85 2010

Despite Ottawa's shortages of equipment, ambulances had to squat strategically throughout the city's downtown byways -- just in case the Tigers gave up on dialogue -- along with ominously dark-windowed four-by-fours and emergency fire vehicles.

Stop the Tamil Tigers in Ottawa... GayandRight 2009

In a convoy of 15 four-by-fours with tinted windows and two vans full of reporters, we pass the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev — a city of 40,000 people with concrete houses, large apartment blocks, and shopping malls — and cross the new “separation barrier” at a special checkpoint that allows cars with diplomatic plates to avoid the inconvenience of waiting in line for hours like the Palestinians.

Grand Illusions 2007

In a convoy of 15 four-by-fours with tinted windows and two vans full of reporters, we pass the Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev — a city of 40,000 people with concrete houses, large apartment blocks, and shopping malls — and cross the new “separation barrier” at a special checkpoint that allows cars with diplomatic plates to avoid the inconvenience of waiting in line for hours like the Palestinians.

Grand Illusions 2007

Ensign Scott immediately assembled sailors to use plywood, four-by-fours, and jacks to stabilize the bulkhead with shoring.

The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009