How To Use Forty-eight In A Sentence
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It was the first time that he flexed his muscles on the international front, taking what afterward he was to call his gravest risk—the forty-eight hours that were “the most nerve-racking in my life.”
The Prize
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Queen's bargemaster and her forty-eight watermen -- honorary servants for many a day -- twelve carriages with her Majesty's suite, a squadron of Life
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1
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The first rank of the enomoty was composed of four soldiers: as to the depth, although they had not been all drawn up alike, but as each captain chose, they were generally ranged eight deep; the first rank along the whole line, exclusive of the sciritae, consisted of four hundred and forty-eight men.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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According to these orders, Robinson supplied fifty mortise locks, thirty-six pairs of octagonal glass knobs, twelve plain knob sets, and forty-eight escutcheons.
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Hitler sends the entire Forty-eighth Panzer Corps to chop off Patton's neck after the breakout.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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The parts are immediately covered with aseptic absorbent cotton and this dressing is left in position for forty-eight hours and if perchance there is evidence of synovial discharge, the parts are again aseptically dressed in order to prevent infection of the articulation.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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After just forty-eight seconds of action, Sammartino used his Italian backbreaker to force Rogers into submission, thus ending the first-ever WWE Championship reign.
WWE Championship
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In fact, no company has pursued the leadership strategy more aggressively than Siebel, founded a decade ago by ex-Oracle supersalesman Tom Siebel, now forty-eight.
THE NEW MARKET LEADERS
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Well it's forty-eight hours on, and Lisa and I have successfully settled into our new life and formed a love triangle with a white-haired old duffer called Oscar.
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Gave me three answers he did; first that 'twas forty-eight, then that 'twas eighty-four and then that he'd forgot what 'twas.
Shavings
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They had been battened down below for the last forty-eight hours, because the fear of a recapture was the nightmare of every prizemaster.
Mr. Midshipman Easy
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You may remember that Mr. Goldner, the expedition's provisioner of canned foods, failed to deliver the bulk of his goods until less than forty-eight hours before we sailed, so we had to repack both ships to a great extent.
The Terror
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Forty-eight years later, Park is fighting to regain those rights so that he can have a say in his local government.
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The largest of the forty-eight recovered pieces weighs 27. 4 kilograms, more than adequate for lethality.
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Larry defended his title twenty consecutive times (all-in-all, fighting a total of twenty-six title bouts throughout his career) and held the record for forty-eight straight wins, next to boxing legend Rocky Marciano.
PA-SEN: National GOP Not Opening Wallet For Santorum's Reelection
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With luck we can blindside the Zolars for forty-eight hours while we figure a scam to entice them over the border.
INCA GOLD
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The wolves that remained wild find themselves all but exterminated in the lower forty-eight states.
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Forty-eight nursing assistants now are taking classes at the Kane centers to eventually qualify as higher-paid licensed practical nurses.
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Forty-eight years after he himself set forth beyond seas, he passed on to young John Milton "in procinct of his travels," his favourite bit of wisdom, learned from a Roman courtier well versed in the ways of Italy: "I pensieri stretti e il viso sciolto." [
English Travellers of the Renaissance
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Upon retiring from the book business in 1998 after forty-eight years, he began work on the fluent autumnal poems that would eventually constellate into Breathing Room, several of which first appeared in The Atlantic.
A Life's Work
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The well-known telescopist Goldschmidt (who commenced astronomical observation at the age of forty-eight, in 1850) added fourteen asteroids to the solar system, not to speak of important discoveries of nebulæ and variable stars, by means of a telescope only five feet in focal length, mounted on a movable tripod stand.
Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.
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Alaska and Hawaii are not joined to the other forty-eight states.
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Tully was only forty-eight, an old-school political pro and a fine man we had all come to adore and depend on.
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I am armed cap-a-pie; today I open the campaign, and in forty-eight hours I shall have made great progress.
Eve and David
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Now a day was incomplete without its disclosure about this or that bishop or prester or whatnot having fa'thered a child on his sister, having poisoned his pre'decessor, or having embezzled a fortune to buy his male mistress a forty-eight-room cabin in the country.
Cold Copper Tears
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Forty-eight hours, hundreds of hackers and an endless supply of pizza: the perfect combination for a weekend of geekery.
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In the year 1584, when an act of parliament was made that all ministers, masters of colleges, &c. should within forty-eight hours, compear and subscribe the act of parliament, concerning the king's power over all estates spiritual and temporal, and submit themselves to the bishops, &c.
Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
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It took a full forty-eight hours to span the continent from New York to Los Angeles.
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Forty-eight people had died on the passage over, one fifth of those who had sailed.
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There were now only forty-eight hours left until the craft carried out its programmed instructions.
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Hitler sends the entire Forty-eighth Panzer Corps to chop off Patton's neck after the breakout.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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To give him the greater weight, he was created a landgrave of the colony, to which dignity forty-eight thousand acres of land were unalienably annexed: but to his mortification he soon found, that the proprietary government had acquired but little firmness and stability, and, by his imprudence and rigour, fell into still greater disrespect and contempt.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1
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Nevertheless, within forty-eight hours of the first landings, all the beachheads were secured.
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Galen takes exception at mutton, but without question he means that rammy mutton, which is in Turkey and Asia Minor, which have those great fleshy tails, of forty-eight pounds weight, as Vertomannus witnesseth, navig. lib.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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During those forty-eight hours, the big howitzer, which is the type of the heavy German siege train -- the 225 mm. -- was brought up, and it is possible that a couple of the still larger Austrian pieces of 280 mm. (what we call in this country the 11-inch), which are constructed with flat treadles to their wheels to fire from mats laid on any reasonably hard surface (such as a roadway), had been brought up as well.
A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase
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She closeted herself in her hotel room for as long as forty-eight hours at a stretch.
ISAAC CAMPION
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With luck we can blindside the Zolars for forty-eight hours while we figure a scam to entice them over the border.
INCA GOLD
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Forty-eight hours before UVB exposure, mice were shaved with electric clippers and chemically depilated.
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The temple of Sri Ranngam is situated a mile from the bridge and three miles from the fort, the entrance being through a gopura forty-eight feet high; the sides of this passage, one hundred feet long and forty-three feet high, are richly ornamented.
Travels in the Far East
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The British transport, bound from Vladivostok to Hong-Kong, was destined to swing on her mudhook forty-eight hours.
The Pagan Madonna
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For those of us who were taught in grade school to revere him and in college to shrug him off, the beard is an obstacle to fresh acquaintance, and Newton Arvin has wisely chosen a frontispiece in which the forty-eight-year-old man is obscured only by burnsides.
Longfellow
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Whether at ordination a man expected to be a priest for thirty-seven years or forty-eight years, ordination was ordination.
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Thrull, drill, thrill, thirl, and thurl, are all current elsewhere -- all from Saxon [Greek text].) {82} Of course there should be forty-eight signatures, as appended, doubtless, to the original document.
Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean
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Its mycelian filaments, if one may so describe them, have been produced scarcely for twenty-four or forty-eight hours when they are seen to transform themselves, those especially which are in free contact with the air, into very refringent corpuscles, capable of gradually isolating themselves into true germs of slight organization.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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The occupants of the largest portions of land were bound, within four years, to build a castle and bawn, that is, a walled enclosure, with towers at the angles, within which was placed the cattle, -- and to plant on their estates forty-eight able-bodied men, eighteen years old or upwards, of English or Scottish descent.
Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers
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Forty-eight percent of those with health insurance experience problems with their plans - denial or delay of service being the most frequent.
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A golden dolphin, which had been suspended from a beam, and on which the eye of every charioteer was fixed, dropped to the ground, a blast on the 'salpinx', or war-trumpet, was sounded, and forty-eight horses flew forth as though thrown forward by one impulsion.
Serapis — Volume 06
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All told, we'd traversed some forty-eight miles, paddling and portaging.
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Forty-eight hours have elapsed since his arrest.
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He showered and climbed into an ill-fitting suit which a Sunni tailor had run up for him in forty-eight hours.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The years of the fructiferous incarnation of the Son of God had reached the number of one thousand three hundred and forty-eight, when into the illustrious city of Florence, beautiful beyond every other in Italy, entered the death - fraught pestilence.
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes
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Ultimately, it took the Bolsheviks less than forty-eight hours to seize control of Petrograd.
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He was forty-eight, but he bent over the sack, applied a tentative, shifting grip that balanced it, and, with a quick heave, stood erect, the somersaulted sack of flour on his shoulder.
THE TASTE OF THE MEAT
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Temperatures in the shade can reach forty-eight degrees celsius at this time of year.
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Forty-eight cases were admitted from nursing homes or convalescent care facilities.
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With luck we can blindside the Zolars for forty-eight hours while we figure a scam to entice them over the border.
INCA GOLD
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Forty-eight recognized grape varieties (30 wine varieties among them) are cultivated on a commercial scale in Armenia.
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We have been the last forty-eight hours rather harassingly employed routing out a nest of pirates which we have done nearly to a man.
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir
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Its mycelian filaments, if one may so describe them, have been produced scarcely for twenty-four or forty-eight hours when they are seen to transform themselves, those especially which are in free contact with the air, into very refringent corpuscles, capable of gradually isolating themselves into true germs of slight organization.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
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Users are only allowed one noninformative bump, and it must come after forty-eight hours after the last activity on the thread in question.
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His army razed forty-eight Cossack settlements and killed 7,000 people; but later, fearing Ottoman expansionism, Peter allowed a revival — on the condition that Cossacks accept an ataman, or chieftain, appointed by the czar to rule the oblast.
Russia's Holy Warriors
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Forty-eight square miles of good sound fame your not inerudite correspondent can conscientiously lay claim to; and although there is, with regret I admit it, a considerable portion of the square superficies alluded to, waste and uncultivated moor, yet I can say, wid that racy touch of genial and expressive pride which distinguishes men of letters in general, that the other portions of this fine district are inhabited by a multitudinity of population in the highest degree creditable to the prolific powers of the climate.
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
