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FOUR   occurs   25 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... Four.   12&12 p.46, Step Four
They can do this, for they are the carriers of A.A.'s tested experience with Step Four.

2.
... Four.   12&12 p.50, Step Four
These are the first fruits of Step Four.


3.
... Four.   BB p.64, How It Works   Go to page 64 in the Big Book
This was Step Four.


4.
... four.   BB p.156, A Vision For You   Go to page 156 in the Big Book
As we shall see, he now means a great deal to his community, and the major liabilities of thirty years of hard drinking have been repaired in four.

5.
... Four an A.A. group had exercised its ...   12&12 p.149, Tradition Four
Thus it was that under Tradition Four an A.A. group had exercised its right to be wrong.

6.
... Four back and forth over our careers, ...   12&12 p.55, Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.


7.
... four categories:   BB p.108, To Wives   Go to page 108 in the Big Book
The problem with which you struggle usually falls within one of four categories:


8.
Four days before he had hanged himself ...   BB p.137, To Employers   Go to page 137 in the Big Book
Four days before he had hanged himself in his woodshed.


9.
Four -- Each group should be autonomous except ...   BB p.562(564), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Four -- Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other groups or A.A. as a whole.


10.
... Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.   BB p.151, A Vision For You   Go to page 151 in the Big Book
Momentarily we did -- then would come oblivion and the awful awakening to face the hideous Four Horsemen -- Terror, Bewilderment, Frustration, Despair.


11.
... four hours a day in and through ...   BB p.16, Bill's Story   Go to page 16 in the Big Book
Faith has to work twenty-four hours a day in and through us, or we perish.


12.
... four hours ahead.   BB p.86, Into Action   Go to page 86 in the Big Book
On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead.

13.
... Four is but the beginning of a ...   12&12 p.50, Step Four
Since Step Four is but the beginning of a lifetime practice, it can be suggested that he first have a look at those personal flaws which are acutely troublesome and fairly obvious.

14.
... Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort ...   12&12 p.42, Step Four
Step Four is our vigorous and painstaking effort to discover what these liabilities in each of us have been, and are.


15.
... four months the goose hung high.   BB p.7, Bill's Story   Go to page 7 in the Big Book
For three or four months the goose hung high.


16.
... four o'clock.   BB p.177, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 177 in the Big Book
My phobia for sleeplessness demanded that I get drunk every night, but in order to get more liquor for the next night, I had to stay sober during the day, at least up to four o'clock.


17.
... four ounce bottles and stick several in ...   BB p.177, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 177 in the Big Book
I used also to put it up in four ounce bottles and stick several in my stocking tops.


18.
... four reasons:   BB p.180, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 180 in the Big Book
I do it for four reasons:

19.
... Four was, after all, only a look.   12&12 p.58, Step Five
The objective look at ourselves we achieved in Step Four was, after all, only a look.

20.
... Four, we commenced to search out the ...   12&12 p.107, Step Twelve
Beginning with Step Four, we commenced to search out the things in ourselves which had brought us to physical, moral, and spiritual bankruptcy.

21.
Four -- With respect to its own affairs, ...   12&12 p.189, Tradition Four (Long)
Four -- With respect to its own affairs, each A.A. group should be responsible to no other authority than its own conscience.


22.
... four years.   BB p.33, More About Alcoholism   Go to page 33 in the Big Book
Though a robust man at retirement, he went to pieces quickly and was dead within four years.


23.
... four years have passed.   BB p.180, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 180 in the Big Book
As I write, nearly four years have passed.


24.
... four years in one of the best ...   BB p.172, Doctor Bob's Nightmare   Go to page 172 in the Big Book
After high school came four years in one of the best colleges in the country where drinking seemed to be a major extra-curricular activity.


25.
Four: You may have a husband of ...   BB p.110, To Wives   Go to page 110 in the Big Book
Four: You may have a husband of whom you completely despair.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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