In the paper the fourth order nonlinear differential equation $y^{\left(4\right)}+{\left(q\left(t\right)y^{\text{'}}\right)}^{\text{'}}+r\left(t\right)f\left(y\right)=0$, where $q\in C^1\left([0,\infty )\right)$, $r\in C^0\left([0,\infty )\right)$, $f\in C^0\left(R\right)$, $r\ge 0$ and $f\left(x\right)x>0$ for $x\ne 0$ is considered. We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of nonoscillatory solutions and give sufficient conditions under which all nonoscillatory solutions either are unbounded or tend to zero for $t\to \infty$.

Sufficient conditions are presented for all bounded solutions of the linear system of delay differential equations $${(-1)}^{m+1}\frac{d^m{y}_i\left(t\right)}{d{t}^m}+\sum _{j=1}^n{q}_{ij}{y}_j(t-h_{jj})=0,m\ge 1,i=1,2,...,n,$$ to be oscillatory, where $q_{ij}\epsilon (-\infty ,\infty )$, $h_{jj}\in (0,\infty )$, $i,j=1,2,...,n$. Also, we study the oscillatory behavior of all bounded solutions of the linear system of neutral differential equations $${(-1)}^{m+1}\frac{d^m}{d{t}^m}(y_i\left(t\right)+c{y}_i(t-g))+\sum _{j=1}^n{q}_{ij}{y}_j(t-h)=0,$$ where $c$, $g$ and $h$ are real constants and $i=1,2,...,n$.