How To Use Forty-seven In A Sentence
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She was a short, round-faced stout woman of forty-seven with rolling-pin arms and thick-fingered hands.
Olivia
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Forty-seven percent of print media readers held at least one misperception.
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Once in forty-seven years someone actually holds the guy to account, and he fails miserably.
The Volokh Conspiracy » House Democratic Leaders Drop “Deem and Pass”
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We got on our engine and the head brakeman took us over to the stock pens and picked up four cars of sheep and took us back in the yard to No. 7 track and coupled us up to forty-seven more cars of sheep and cattle, and Smyers, trainmaster for the A.,
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America
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The dinner, from the removal of the _potage_ to the salad, bristled with truffles, and the banker's stomach, aged forty-seven years, experienced the burning and biting of pyrosis.
The Lost Child 1894
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Here the ordinary copies stop in forty-seven volumes, for the evil days of the Jesuits were coming on, and the new literary oligarchy, where Voltaire, Montesquieu, and D'Alembert held sway, had not been propitious to hagiology.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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YET ANOTHER endless, mind-numbing forty-seven page long blurb from victoria, who day in and day out thinks her uppity, doctorly opinions are welcome, relavant, superior, not coma-inducing...
"Anna Nicole Smith embodied America... its overabundance; its exploitability, and its propensity to exploit."
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Forty-seven percent are enrolled in classes, which is one of the highest rates in the federal system.
A Model Prison
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Herz was born at Besançon, in eastern France, in 1845, which made him forty-seven at the time his name leaped into print.
The Path Between the Seas
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Although the husband had only forty-seven days in totality within the relevant twelve months he had made nine arrivals within the jurisdiction.
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Forty-seven percent of travelers are allowing their budgets to dictate where they go, yet no major website out there asks, how much do you want to spend?
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But surely some one who could make a column as attractive as this one would have no trouble making another forty-seven?
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Finally, on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates. His name was Franklin Pierce.
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Number forty-seven was a huge red-brick house in gracious grounds, with a double garage and parking space for three more cars.
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I have seen her dive from the bridge deck – no mean feat in itself – into that six-feet of water, and fetch up no less than forty-seven coins, scattered willy-nilly over the whole bottom of the tank.
Under the Deck Awnings
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Think of it, there are a hundred and forty-seven great works reposing in the bosoms of a hundred and forty-seven great men, and the tragic thing is that not one of those hundred and forty-seven great works will ever be written.
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Yet Charlie had been trawling the North Sea for forty-seven years now without getting a scratch on the Cwendolyn's topsides.
CORMORANT
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The forty-seven year old Oscar-winning actress recently ended her fourteen year relationship with rumored lesbian lover Cydney Bernard, 55, after embarking on a passionate affair with younger lipstick lezzie Cindy Mort, The National Enquirer claims.
Jodie Foster Dina Lohan Diss
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The things this man had experienced astounded me: he had run in the Olympics and crossed paths with Hitler; lived through ferocious aerial combat and bombardment on the ground; endured a plane crash, forty-seven days on a tiny life raft, shark attacks, a typhoon and a machine gunning from a Japanese bomber; and, after his capture, joined a daring prisoner underground while enslaved in Japanese POW camps.
The New Yorker
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The term laborer as used in chapter five hundred and three of the acts of nineteen hundred and twelve, as amended by chapter forty-seven of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen and by chapter twenty - one of the General Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteen, providing for the pensioning of laborers in the employ of cities and towns and as used in chapter four hundred and thirteen of the acts of nineteen hundred and eleven, as amended by chapter three hundred and sixty-seven of the Pensioning of foremen, in - spectors, me - chanics, draw - tenders, assistant drawtenders and store - keepers in employ of cities and towns.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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The forty-seven samurai of Asano's bodyguard, now reduced to the status of ronin, or masterless samurai, decided that their code of honour demanded revenge.
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Forty-seven percent of movers with a college degree moved to a new county, either within the same state or in another state, compared with 34 percent of those with less than a high school education who did so.
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At the same time, writing became more widespread, mainly using a simplified alphabet of only forty-seven syllables.
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I was hiding in the bathroom for something like the forty-seventh consecutive night, and—just as during all those nights before—I was sobbing.
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She was very sexy, at forty-seven.
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He was forty-seven but he acted like he was seventy-four, and his voice was so plummy River had always wondered if he was putting it on.
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(ch.vi. 1) to Hezekiah's sickness and recovery was forty-seven years; how much before, and after, he prophesied, is not certain; some reckon sixty, others eighty years in all.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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I was forty-seven, Yorgos perhaps seventy, so his deference was both strange and moving to me, and we struck up a conversation.
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In John Lanchester's short story "Expectations" in the Jan. 9 New Yorker magazine, his 2007 banker-protagonist's "considered view of the Damien Hirst spot painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus V.A.T.
Spotting the State of Art
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I have the impression that those on the garage have been left completely untended since they were applied some forty-seven years ago.
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Forty-seven percent of the headhunters judged that strabismic subjects have more difficulties in obtaining a job.
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At the same time, writing became more widespread, mainly using a simplified alphabet of only forty-seven syllables.
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`No, but the forty-seven signatories on the original UNACO Charter could easily come up with that kind of money.
CODE BREAKER
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Between June 6 and July 18, forty-seven people were found dead of thirst and heat prostration on the Tohono O'Odham lands.
