How To Use Forty In A Sentence

  • _Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
  • This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
  • We catered for forty but only twenty came.
  • Two-way trade between the two countries increased by more than forty per cent last year.
  • Except for the frequent conferences now in the new Forty-second Street offices that commanded a view of two rivers and a vast battledoor and shuttlecock of the city, it was the first time in all those years that stretched from the night at the Waldorf that they had sat thus tête-à-tête. Star-Dust
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  • What is called effluxion is a destruction of the embryo within the first week, while abortion occurs up to the fortieth day; and the greater number of such embryos as perish do so within the space of these forty days. The History of Animals
  • Forty per cent of the population is suffering from malnutrition.
  • It had been forty years at least since anyone had called her girlie. The Forgotten Garden
  • She was the founder of the company, and for forty years its guiding spirit.
  • His thoughts on life after forty have convinced him to accept uncertainty and nobody believes he is more than forty years old.
  • Watch the monitor and tell me if the level goes above forty decibels.
  • The deputy mayor, Louise Schroeder, foolishly and without our knowledge, took forty-odd plainclothesmen from Western sectors over to keep order. Daring Young Men
  • Forty-three members of the expedition were killed.
  • Dick Brewer had taken refuge behind a thirty-inch sawlog near the mill, just one hundred and forty steps from the window near which this fierce little fighting man was lying, wounded to death. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado
  • The last forty pages of the publication are dedicated to the numerous journalists who have fallen the victims of repression around the world.
  • A thirty - six volt battery can carry the rickshaw forty kilometers.
  • All told, we'd traversed some forty-eight miles, paddling and portaging.
  • On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet. The U-boat hunters
  • There are motifs, themes, and recurring melodies, all the things you'd expect from one song blown up to forty minutes.
  • He looked at the clock: one forty.
  • Forty three minutes had passed and that own goal was Wales' first try of the match. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once primarily limited to intergang violence, the bloodshed of the city’s drug trade began spilling onto the streets of the border city in July 1997, when, at the age of forty-two, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died during a botched cosmetic surgery procedure in Mexico City, supposedly designed to change his appearance to evade law enforcement. THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
  • There were thirty or forty people there, which was an excellent turnout.
  • Other high-energy foods include fresh vegetables, which should constitute forty percent of the meal.
  • In summer, the temperature sometimes climbs up to forty degrees centigrade.
  • Albicores, bonitoes, and dolphins followed the ship for several days in succession; and one albicore, which had a mark on his back, from which we knew it, followed us from 3 degrees north latitude to 10 degrees south latitude, a distance of eight hundred and forty miles. Mark Seaworth
  • Could this be the end of fortysomething fellows abandoning their wives and rushing off in pursuit of fast cars and fast women? Times, Sunday Times
  • Our coach was caught in a traffic jam and got to Heathrow forty minutes late.
  • School classes break for outdoor recess every forty-five minutes.
  • While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all. THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD
  • Forty-two percent of the diet of the black-footed penguin is small shoaling fish, with 25 species of fish, including anchovies (Engraulis capensis) and sardines (Sardinops sagax) being recorded, as well as 18 species of crustaceans, three species of squid, and one species of polychaete worm. Black-footed penguin
  • Forty places for cars are available in the underground car park under the supermarket.
  • The course takes forty hours, spread over twenty weeks.
  • I phoned, held on for forty minutes. Times, Sunday Times
  • In short, our forty-fourth chief executive sought to end America's two-and-a-third centuries as a truly exceptional nation-more patriotic, more dynamic, more enterprising and freer than any other-to turn the republic into a kind of enervated satellite of Western Europe. Forbes.com: News
  • Later, despite the efforts of her instructors at an Arica forty-day intensive, she developed an overnight obsession for Rolfing. TALES OF THE CITY
  • Oroveso to the Druidical chorus, was a muscular spinster, fierce and forty, sporting steel spectacles, a frizette of the most scrupulous honesty, and a towering comb which formed what the landscape-gardeners call "an object" in the distance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864
  • Through forty-five songs interspersed with dialogue and scriptural verses, the play emphasized the Saint's complete devotional self-surrender.
  • These shears were given to me by head cutter, Mr. Hallberry on his retirement, after forty years with Anderson & Sheppard.
  • The contrast between the anarchical images of vandalism in Seattle and Genoa and the dignified demeanor of civil rights demonstrators forty years before is striking.
  • Videos worth around forty thousand pounds were seized from a mobile home rental business and a number of vehicles.
  • She was a prim ugly woman of forty - three, who wore glasses and had sparse hair.
  • Old, sharp creases from having been folded for more than forty years. Times, Sunday Times
  • When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
  • He and his wife drove from Fort Wayne and arrived at the courthouse a few minutes before the forty-five second ceremony.
  • During the long and miserable forty days of Lent, desirable edibles such as eggs and butter were not permitted to be eaten.
  • They have been recorded up to forty and even fifty miles in length, and they have been called floe bergs, because it was supposed that they froze first as ordinary sea-ice and increased by subsequent additions from below. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
  • Armed with his banjo, tinwhistle, poetry, stagecraft and his magnificent baritone voice, Tommy has been mesmerising audiences for more than forty years.
  • His friend summoned the genie, and made a wish that all of the forty thieves would be sent to a land far away.
  • -- I'm sitten down here, after seven-and-forty miles 'ridin', e'en as forjesket and forniaw'd as a forfoughten cock, to gie ye some notion o 'my land lowper-like stravaguin sin the sorrowfu' hour that I sheuk hands and parted wi 'auld Reekie. The Letters of Robert Burns
  • The shock of the explosion was felt over a radius of forty miles.
  • The succeeding days were devoted to a general reconnaissance of the place; but I must say that Roustchouk, although capital of the pashalic of Silistria, and containing thirty or forty thousand inhabitants, pleased me less than any town of its size that I had seen in the East. Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
  • Frontiers which have held for over forty years are no longer sacred.
  • There may be thirty or forty of them to a square inch.
  • When he had consumed all the litharge in Sedan he made no more gold, nor ever more saw his philosopher or his forty thousand crowns. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Flash forward forty years, and the buddies are in dissatisfied retirement when fate comes knocking. Surprise Party
  • The length of the acre, forty rods, has given rise to one of the familiar units of length, the furlong, that is, a "furrow-long," or the length of a furrow. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
  • Nearly forty people were in hospital today and a further 50 are believed to be affected by a mass outbreak of food poisoning.
  • It is rare for someone to be given this diagnosis so young as it usually affects individuals between forty and sixty years of age.
  • In addition, Braund has appended to the text 614 notes, some of which are more than forty lines.
  • I have been accused of perfidy, malingering, duplicity, charlatanism and forty other words that I don't know the meaning of.
  • The forty-five-year-old, who owns his own hair salon in Glasgow, had liposculpture done to his stomach and hips.
  • They managed to squash forty people into the bus.
  • Their thirty and forty - thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and maneuvered in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funneled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks. Goliah
  • Bernard's thirty-one kayos in forty-four fights will attest to his success in using this theory.
  • Dennis also bought thirty to forty dollars' worth of fireworks, everything from firecrackers to some really serious-looking rockets.
  • While investigating the dyeing properties of the lichens, I made experiments, with a view to test their colorific power, on as many species as I could obtain in sufficient quantity, to render it at all useful to operate on -- that number, however, being very limited (between forty and fifty). The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
  • Watch the monitor and tell me if the level goes above forty decibels.
  • I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man.
  • The plant provides forty per cent of the country's electricity.
  • In full light, you could see Alison was well over forty.
  • In a star-spangled career stretching nearly forty years Derek McCann has stonewalled every single team that has participated in Section One of the Northern Cricket Union.
  • It was four blocks before he caught up with her, and he saw with numb amazement that she was running at nearly forty miles an hour.
  • Forty per cent more seats will be provided during the morning peak for commuters into London by making all trains eight-car and transferring extra stock to the line.
  • Forty hectares of mature trees enfold the resort.
  • Christmas was soon complemented by the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple, forty days after his birth.
  • Mac nodded, turning on the Jeep and pulling out of the driveway at forty miles per hour.
  • The auditors used to come in and do nothing but shoot the breeze for forty minutes.
  • Frenchman, who skulked so that I made sure of him, and not a blessed anker of foreign brandy, nor even a forty-pound bag of tea. Mary Anerley
  • I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago, when I was forty.
  • Forty-five per cent of respondents detected unauthorised access by insiders.
  • Forty years on, our successors have no doubt that they are on history's winning side.
  • This piece of furniture is really inexpensive with a price of less than forty dollars.
  • For that is a fact: up to the age of five-and-forty, the dreadless Tartarin of Tarascon
  • The dromon had two masts, lateen rigged, and between thirty and forty oars to a side. A History of Sea Power
  • She earns around forty thousand a year.
  • There they were confined in an utterly alien climate, with a resulting death toll of some forty percent, until the winter of 1913-14.
  • He had cut notches into the wooden surface of the longbow, counting how many foes he had slain with the weapon; so far there were forty-nine marks.
  • If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near forty. Chris Rock 
  • It wasn't until Steiner was nearly forty and the 19th century was about to end that he became deeply interested in the occult.
  • Tie an oversize scarf (about forty-five inches wide by fifty or sixty inches long) or pareo around your lower waist (just below your natural waistline) and do a loop square knot tie above the center of one leg. Push the knot lower on your body, forming a subtle angle. “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear”
  • By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day.
  • Nevertheless, within forty-eight hours of the first landings, all the beachheads were secured.
  • The author found that 100 grammes of a Bucholze's solution for the propagation of bacteria, charged with 0.20 g. of chinoline hydrochlorate, had remained perfectly clear and free from bacteria after standing forty-six days exposed to the air, while a similar solution, placed under the same conditions, without chinoline, had turned muddy and contained bacteria after only twelve days 'standing. Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882
  • The waxable skis are more like thirty-five or forty years old, laminated wood, and probably belong in an antique shop for potential ski lodge decor... Snowblowers Awake! A Voice Is Calling!
  • Forty - second article at the arbitral tribunal to make a ruling before the mediation should be first.
  • In the first case, he'd have no hope, but in the second the odds were sixty-forty in his favour.
  • He must have been young at that time, since he only appeared barely over forty years of age, despite a weathered face and body.
  • For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand.
  • The footnote lasts forty pages. The Times Literary Supplement
  • You pay forty quid a month to watch advertising you also pay for.
  • For one thing, less politically motivated assessments of the marquise describe her as a beautiful woman up until the time of her death at the ‘great’ age of forty-three.
  • Forty minutes later he was still empty-handed and beginning to panic.
  • Instead I have come to realise that I must bear the guilty burden of forty years of unintentional eco-terrorism.
  • According to St. Basil, forty soldiers who had openly confessed themselves Christians were condemned by the prefect to be exposed naked upon a frozen pond near Sebaste on a bitterly cold night, that they might feeze to death. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • The pair travel in an orbit from fourteen to forty-two times the radius of the Earth's orbit; so that when at apastron they are three times as distant from each other as when at periastron. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • Even Fortyne, who left a step behind him, had an iciness in his bearing that was almost palpable. THE SCAR
  • Latin scribes held their stiff-nibbed reed pens almost directly upright and at right angles to the writing surface, so that a down stroke from left to right and slanted at an angle of about forty-five degrees would bring the nib across the surface broadwise, resulting in the widest line possible to the pen. Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples
  • Forty - six women made the list, including the three granddaughters of oilman J . Paul Getty.
  • At the campaign's peak, leaders of forty-five different student groups had signed on in support of Senior Gift Plus and divestment.
  • 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
  • This was the first day in the Alps and on the top of Col de Ramaz they had almost three inches of rain when a deluge came down on them for a full forty five minutes.
  • Today, at forty - eight , Mckenty was an exceedingly important personage.
  • The second Expedition failed to find gold, but brought back argentiferous galena in copper-stained quartz, and possibly in the ochraceous red veins seaming the Secondary gypsum; with silicates and carbonates of copper: select specimens of the latter yielding the enormous proportion of forty per cent. The Land of Midian
  • Grail engineering employs forty people, and is currently training twelve apprentices.
  • Forty-year-old faculty members have usually shed some of their earlier envies, animosities, and petty vanities, enabling them to be more understanding mentors.
  • The combustion of a vastly increased bulk of pulverized coal and a greatly enlarged combustion zone, extending about forty feet longitudinally into the kiln -- thus providing an area within which the material might be maintained in a clinkering temperature for a sufficiently long period to insure its being thoroughly clinkered from periphery to centre. Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 2
  • The overall performance of the system is then about forty to fifty watts per square meter, averaged over day and night.
  • A color-plate section on glossy paper contains forty-six photos of cut gems and mineral specimens and includes a color photo of the famous Hamlin varicolored tourmaline necklace.
  • Now, at forty-three, he had to be content with cardboard bloaters!
  • I was already forty-five minutes late for a dental appointment and had plenty of time to reflect upon the day.
  • Karl followed the pair, speeding up to forty klicks when the trail led onto a dirt road.
  • He then went at once and borrowed a waggon and twelve oxen, and during the night we packed the waggon three times, and took three loads across the Buffalo River to Degaza's kraal, which is on Natal ground, forty sacks of grain, 200 pounds in a box, with clothes and other things, also mats and skins, and four head of cattle and a horse. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal
  • When the yellow fever broke out in New York, and caused much alarm, nearly forty years ago, the first cases occurred in the vicinity of Trinity Church, and until destroyed by a black frost, it spread gradually in every direction from this common centre, insomuch that the "infected district" was clearly defined and marked out from day to day. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale
  • She made a moue that must have been quite fetching thirty or forty years ago.
  • A phonograph record, especially a forty - five , having one song on each side.
  • Forty-one He'd been making Lee practise Vivaldi's Concerto in G minor for two cellos. THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
  • The first forty-five and a half bars are for the orchestra, allegro moderato e grazioso. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • He has been in the employ of the company for nearly forty years.
  • They got forty of 'em, feedin ''em in a hotel in Stockton right now, an' ready to rush 'em in on us an 'hundreds more like' em. CHAPTER X
  • At the four corners were four hypethral chambers, forty cubits square.
  • As it used to be in the night, it usedn't to take from me time, an 'I'd be up again next day as if I'd slep' forty hours. Some Everyday Folk and Dawn
  • How many children have failed Grade 10 during the last five years - forty, fifty, sixty, seventy thousand?
  • Her barely there makeup took almost an hour to apply and she’d arranged her hair in an upswept ’do that required forty-five minutes of concentration as she created an off-center part, gathered her hair tightly into place, and then strategically released strands of hair, allowing the tresses to dangle, successfully pulling off the impression of whimsical undoneness that was both capricious and exceedingly sexy. Pure Paradise
  • Our team has a commanding lead of forty to twenty.
  • In the solo competitions Louise got first place for her hornpipe and second place for her reel and overall, out of forty eight competitors from all over Ireland, England and the North of Ireland, she was placed sixth.
  • Forty one per cent of people admit to being surface cleaners, never doing a good old clean.
  • As he corralled the delegates toward the building, he couldn't help but gaze at the gate, where a row of forty National Guardsmen stood.
  • With the aid of a single soldier, by patching together all the three, after eighteen days, he constructed a boat, forty feet in length, and six in breadth, which he termed the schooner Joliba. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa
  • He made a pile selling computers and retired by the time he was forty.
  • I find the chub are often shoaled up in numbers from ten to forty fish and providing you don't spook them you can often make a big catch.
  • He was prepared to stand watch and steer the ship for forty or fifty days or however long was necessary.
  • The only hope for the Democrats to block Alito was by a filibuster, and even with forty-two votes against him this was not something that they were willing to do. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
  • Done in quintuplicate, at the city of Guadalupe Hidalgo, on the second day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty—eight. Treaty with Mexico
  • Usually, these songs don't come from the heavyweight and cool end of the music biz, more the top forty pop 'n' fizz market.
  • About forty girls gathered at the station or tram stop wearing our navy box-pleated serge tunics, ties and blazers; we were permitted to remove our Panama hats when out of sight of houses.
  • He did not ride, nor own a wheel, but if Ruth rode, it was up to him to begin, was his decision; and when he said good night, he stopped in at a cyclery on his way home and spent forty dollars for a wheel. Chapter 10
  • The World Bank used new tools to compare the economies and buying power of people in one hundred forty-six countries.
  • The latter strikes me as more fruitful given the proportion of the population that has passed through said institutions over the past forty years and have noted the reality that dicentra highlights, though many were more sympathetic to it at the time than dicentra. The Volokh Conspiracy » Paul Hollander on the Fall of Communism
  • After a forty-five minutes delay the lights came on and the familiar two blasts of the air horns sounded and we began to roll.
  • On the eve of departure, many forty-niners also visited the daguerreian studio to have a ‘likeness’ or two taken for their closest and best-loved female companions, their mothers, wives and sweethearts.
  • They all went whizzing by us as we tootled along at forty miles per hour.
  • (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)
  • They had, like, no shit, forty different kinds of beer on tap.
  • I sighed and settled down in the choir loft for the next boring forty-five minutes.
  • You! called a grinning guy in a tuxedo with a forty-ounce bottle of Coors in his hand. Goodnight Nobody
  • He had a chequered political career spanning nearly forty years.
  • Charles, "would he say," the thin-blooded wand of forty years ago in a brocaded waistcoat and a pair of dancing-shoes seeking his way through a labyrinth of demoniac trees, shivering half with cold and half with terror like a _forcat_ from the _bagne_ of Doom Castle
  • Once there, Anson Burlingame, with his gentle manner and courtly presence, drew from those enfeebled castaways all the story of the burning of the vessel, followed by the long privation and struggle that had lasted through forty-three fearful days and across four thousand miles of stormy sea. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
  • Ms. Douglas was a stringy woman who was nearing the age of forty.
  • After forty years in the police force nothing much shocks me.
  • `I'm milking her for every liter of fuel at an airspeed of only forty klicks an hour," he said finally. INCA GOLD
  • Forty eight years of marriage have not dimmed the passion between Bill and Helen.
  • The sum which it was required Congress should appropriate to the purchase was forty thousand dollars; and considering how that assembly is constituted, how little most of its members know or care about pictures, or of their intrinsic value, and how utterly unimbued they are with any conception of the moral worth of art to a young nation, I conceive it very creditable to the body that the motion was negatived by only two votes. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.
  • To me, it appears that the light beam is outpacing you by forty miles an hour.
  • A few weeks before departing from England, while in London, I was careful to purchase a ticket, and secure a berth for returning home, in the "Cambria" -- the steamer in which I left the United States -- paying therefor the round sum of forty pounds and nineteen shillings sterling. My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith.
  • Be it further enacted, That every County which shall refuse or neglect to levy a tax, and build the School houses herein specified, shall at any time hereafter be entitled to receive the forty dollars hereby appropriated to each district, upon complying with the terms hereinbefore specified. The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II
  • They have thirty or forty hairs in their beards. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
  • He knew how the traffic congested at the junction of Seventh Avenue and Forty - second Street.
  • It's not so much antimodernism or the distrust of intellectual elites that Richard Hofstadter deftly teased out of the national DNA forty years ago. Encomiums, interviews, and phil
  • Eight town centre venues will feature up to forty bands covering all idioms from New Orleans through swing to bebop and contemporary jazz.
  • He gently banked his aircraft forty-five degrees west to make a wide circle around the burning vehicles.
  • Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. Victor Hugo 
  • Let the front of a Doric temple, at the place where the columns are put up, be divided, if it is to be tetrastyle, into twenty-seven parts; if hexastyle, into forty-two. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • The event was an unprecedented one: Champagne's grand cru villages remained at twelve for almost forty years.
  • MALVEAUX: Forty years ago, gunshots rang out at a hotel in Memphis, and an assassin's bullet scienced the voice of a man known for peace and who dared an entire nation to dream about what could be. CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2008
  • This is up from forty to sixty percent in the nineteen nineties.
  • The score now stands at forty-love.
  • But all this was only a prelude: the true celebration came Saturday night, when forty or so of my parents' friends joined us to fête David and Carée's engagement.
  • The nonius, never in common use, consisted essentially of forty-six concentric circles divided into quadrants by two diameters at right angles to each other, each quadrantal arc being divided into equal parts, the number of parts diminishing from ninety for the outermost arc to forty-five for the innermost. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • Go on with you-you're never forty. You don't look a day over thirty.
  • I'm a forty-one-year old metropolitan male, blissfully and undeservedly attached to a very charming woman, but I can well remember what it is like to be a thirty something single male.
  • There were forty piles of one hundred legal-size sheets.
  • Ceaucescu, for example, lived in a forty-room palace where walls were hung with artwork taken from churches and museums.
  • The balsam is a beautiful tree; though not aspiring to the dignity of the pine and hemlock, it shoots up in the most perfect and gradual spire-like form, to a height of thirty or forty feet, remarkable for its elegance; the foliage is very rich in color and quantity. Rural Hours
  • These were petrified trees, eleven being silicified, and from thirty to forty converted into coarsely-crystallised white calcareous spar. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • He was slightly built, almost gaunt, and appeared to be aged somewhere between thirty and forty years.
  • TO BE ABLE to enjoy some Mauritian dholl-puri, we usually go to Mauritian Xpress in Tooting, London, which is about forty miles from Farnborough. Mauritius Blog Tracker
  • Now I can look back on the whole tragedy from a distance of forty years.
  • And yet, he was just turned forty was clear-eyed, calm-hearted, hearty-pulsed, man-strong; and yet, his history, until he was thirty, had been harum-scarum and erratic to the superlative. CHAPTER IV
  • `Think Rose, they used to say that life begins at forty, so why don't you make that the watershed to make your life start again? RESCUING ROSE
  • The battle could not have been fought forty years ago, because, on one side, the Church was an idle phantasm, the gentleman too ignorant, the workman too merely animal; while, on the other, the Manchester cotton-spinners were all Tories, and the shopkeepers were a distinct class interest from theirs. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
  • The most abundant source at present known is the Freiberg blende, 100,000 parts of which only yield from twenty-five to forty parts of indium. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
  • My first attempt at aromatherapy, forty years later, was using lavender oil.
  • She was a successful banker by the time she was forty.
  • The founder-members numbered eleven, and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected.
  • Which amanuensis is a drunken, bankrupt village grocer, of whom my son-in-law is one of the defrauded creditors – Mr. L — having intrusted him with about forty pounds 'worth of the plantation rice, to sell on commission for him, which rice, indeed, was sold, but was never accounted for, and as the man is a bankrupt, never will be. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
  • Madagascar has cut its rate by forty - one percent ; Sao Tome and Principe by nearly half.
  • Forty-one He'd been making Lee practise Vivaldi's Concerto in G minor for two cellos. THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
  • Gharial females bury up to forty eggs, usually in two tiers separated from each other by a thick layer of sand.

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