| 单词 | forty |
| 例句 | “I may look middle class,” said McClellan, who is forty- five, with a square, honest face and a barrel chest. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And meanwhile the art of war has remained almost stationary for thirty or forty years. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In their offices in the top floor of the Rookery, Daniel Burnham, forty-three, and his partner, John Root, newly forty, felt the electricity more keenly than most. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Two hundred and forty years as a nation, and this belief hasn’t changed. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He was probably in his forties and was from Pakistan, even though everyone in the hood thought it was funny to just say he was from Iraq. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Close to forty guests come from three different states. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The wheelhouse in which they had ridden, a huge double-decked carriage of oiled oak and gilded metal pulled by forty heavy draft horses, was too wide to pass through the castle gate. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z ‘Sixty per cent probability he’s lost, forty that he’s run away?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after sunrise we come down the steep road into Livingstonville, a small town of no more than forty houses and stores cozied at the confluence of the Cats- kill and Lake creeks. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Three weeks into her sentence, more than forty women, ranging in age from nineteen to seventy-three, protested Paul’s treatment by marching through the streets of Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The girls were up the road about forty yards sitting on a stone wall. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z If he played the balance of diabetes management and reducing wrong, he could faint in the saddle while moving at forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Often you will be plodding through the sanctuary of woods when suddenly a car will sail past through the trees only forty or fifty feet away—a perennially startling sight. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Here is forty cents. Now don’t get lost! And be back at our regular meeting place by the pigpen very soon!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It’s close to forty minutes before I’m called. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The forty or so girls crowded into the small room looked almost like a sewing circle, so many of the girls were doing mending or needlework. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “She telling everybody she lost forty pounds,” I say. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “He's now got forty ruined cakes on his hands.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Spies reported that there were now more than 430 British ships anchored off nearby Staten Island, and at least forty thousand soldiers. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Now, forty thousand light-years from home, we find ourselves falling toward the massive center of the Milky Way. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Caldwell is forty miles west, in the center of a flat plain known, for reasons that may have made sense long ago, as Treasure Valley. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After graduating our first class of twenty-seven Allies in the spring, we welcomed a new set of forty in the fall and continued to grow from there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z So did the German boat, both rowing at over forty now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The center of the hallway rose upward, creating a massive atrium with shattered glass skylights that cut through the roof forty feet above. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z A man and a woman in their forties appeared. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z A few hours later, German soldiers lashed flat train cars carrying forty barrels of heavy water to the deck of the Hydro. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a New York City school teacher for forty years, and after she retired, decided to travel the world with her husband. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The fighter planes started firing their guns, and more and more aircraft joined the fray, until there were nine Soviet fighter pilots battling forty Luftwaffe aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Annabeth was dimly aware of the Argo II hovering to a stop about forty feet from the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z "This morning the Wisdom Munciter told me that we had seven thousand eight hundred and forty. That count includes four thousand jars from King Aerys's day, to be sure." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z To someone on the track, the two bounces would seem to take place about forty meters apart, because the train would have traveled that far down the track between the bounces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Moch hollered at Hume to take it up another notch, and Washington went to forty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It's been almost forty years, and I haven't come close to shaking it yet. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Demure and reserved, the forty-seven-year-old Namba was forty minutes away from becoming the oldest woman to climb Everest and the second Japanese woman to reach the highest point on each continent, the so-called Seven Summits. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “What are you doing for the next forty or fifty years of your life?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Forty thousand people, forty thousand people, forty thousand people. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z A much bigger city, La Venta, was going up on a swamp island about forty miles away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For the first time in close to forty years, the country's prison population did not increase in 2011. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We calculated that if we earned eight annas each day and contrived to live on four, we could save the money we needed to return in forty days. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z When he finally splashed down, he was off by forty miles, only because of an incorrect estimate in the capsule’s reentry weight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Oh, that’s real cute. Your cousins threw Jo a party here when she turned forty, I think. Matter of fact, it was my uncle Q who organized the whole thing.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Must be forty years. But I think she would remember.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Isaac tossed it, missing the car by a solid forty feet. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Me: Look on the bright side-your legs will be so long that one of your steps will be the same as thirty or forty of a regular person’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mark Antony tried and failed to hold off the western advance, losing forty vessels out of what little was left of his fleet. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Cast in bronze, it was the face of a man in his early forties, wearing a necktie, a tuft of hair falling across his forehead. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On awakening each one had the juice of forty oranges, eight quarts of coffee, and thirty raw eggs. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She was fifty-two, after all, considered elderly in a time when life expectancies hovered around forty years old. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She looked a splendid figure when she was forty. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I have forty, maybe fifty pounds on her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In conformity with his own tactics, he sent only a small troop of forty spears to start the work. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There were about forty men and women, all in white coats and identity tags, sitting and talking animatedly over their lunches. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z There are about forty of us now, aged six through sixteen, representing a range of ability to control our limbs and our voices. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I open up the front cover and there they is, not thirty or forty names, but hundreds, maybe five hundred, in the front pages, the back pages, along the rim a the inside pages. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Every forty, fifty years or so there’s a monstrous flood. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z So they added three hundred rangers, forty local militia members, and fifty Native allies to their troop count. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Though she had lived in America as an eternal exile, a visitor for forty years, certain bits of her adopted country had been seeping under the locked doors of her dis-approval. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At five I got out of bed, ate breakfast, and drove the forty miles to Utah State University. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was large and relaxed, about forty, with gray hair and a froglike mouth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I have come with forty of my men,” said the Russian. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The actual site of the duel was a narrow ledge, about ten feet wide and forty feet long, located only twenty feet above the water. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The other day I discovered a stack of parking tickets in a comer behind a chair—there must have been forty or fifty of them. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z You may remember the time when Ted, my boss at The Maids, drove me about forty minutes to a house where I was needed to reinforce a shorthanded team. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At 1015 the forty men spilled over the side of the cone into the crater. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d heard rumors that service in the military was no longer voluntary, that everyone between the ages of twenty-two and forty had to serve—most of them in the army’s new Psi branch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Naturally there are a few smashups every day. The speed limit is eighteen miles in the city, but everybody goes thirty to thirty five, or forty, even in the down-town section.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Your uncle tell you that you need to cultivate one-eighth of this claim? That’s forty acres.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Silverstein is a slender, short man in his late forties, with a mustache and glasses, and he has an alert, quick gaze. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The four of us took the Buick south on the expressway, following the road out of Chicago, exiting about forty minutes later near a sterile-looking shopping plaza. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He looked for flanker Robert Brown down the right sideline and threw the ball crossfield on a dime about forty yards. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d heard of people surviving car crashes that way, getting thrown thirty or forty feet away from an accident. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z This was a tall man of between forty and fifty, lean of figure, brown of skin, with hair slightly grizzled round the temples. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I’d taken only forty minutes or so for lunch, both the Yoshotos were at their desks and at work when I got back. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z So on the afternoon on February 9, 1919—the day before the Senate planned to consider the amendment—nearly forty suffragists marched to the White House. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Read the others. There are many students who sold over forty. Read those names...” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d lived in South Shore for ten years already and would end up staying another forty. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The next day I drove the same forty miles, eighty round-trip, and returned home with a large algebra textbook. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Forty minutes?—forty minutes before we started recording this, Senator Rafael Luna tweeted he was parting ways with the Richards campaign. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z But maybe she’ll grow out of it It took her daddy forty years to learn to be pleasant. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Chris said he had to boil away forty gallons of sap to make one little gallon of syrup. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “I think I messed up the amounts, though. Didn’t they want an hour? When I doubled the recipe, I didn’t do enough. I don’t think it’ll work over forty minutes.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t just get my license. Okay. If you’re still hesitant, I can drive the forty minutes back to Union Station for you to catch your bus,” he says, checking his phone. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Near forty men took part, freeriders and hedge knights and new-made squires in search of a reputation. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I live with forty others, but I am so alone in this world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiles because he’s an old man of forty and he never had children but the ones he can talk to here in the Fever Hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At age forty, approximately one woman in a thousand develops breast cancer each year, whereas at age sixty the rate has risen to one in five hundred. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The earthquake lasted forty seconds but it felt like years, she said. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z When Henrietta arrived there in the forties, the town was booming. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She’s in a miniskirt and tight leggings and flat clumpy black shoes with laces, her hair is shaved up the back the way my brother’s used to be, a late forties squareboy’s cut. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Amazing,” she called out to Liyana in her bare room, “that Mozart could write this when he was six and I have trouble playing it when I’m forty.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The sitting room is large, and off to the side is a massive dining room with seating for forty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In that big starting room were forty or fifty other prospective inductees. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Not fast, and not wide—perhaps forty or fifty feet across—the river still seemed to possess force, strength as it ran. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z And yet here was a monster, clear as the clearest night, towering thirty or forty feet above him, breathing heavily in the night air. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z The wilderness stretched for forty years before others found their promised land. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “We only have like forty minutes to figure out how Loblolly and the Dandy Bandits crawled into the bank back in 1968!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z He had served the Fefles family for forty years, was married to the nurse who had greeted Elaine with tears of joy, and he approved of love. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "Damnedest thing," said the coachman, who wore a long black robe and who Tristran estimated to be in his late forties, "there was no wind, no storm. It simply fell. Terrified the horses." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The children were coming out of the trees, one by one, maybe forty or fifty of them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When I had finished, he said, "I have you typed, baby. You'll be a prude at forty." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Grandma claims he’s been a dentist for like forty years, and whenever he pulls a tooth from someone famous, he saves it. Then he sells ’em to people. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z True to her word, at the end of the first half-hour, when they had forty cents, Dicey went inside to buy milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Their applause is getting a little weaker, because it’s been two hours and they’ve already heard about forty girls give one-minute speeches, and they’re ready for the queens to be chosen already. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to feel the past once again, to bridge the gap to that time forty years earlier when the slithery moves of Santone Townsend had swelled their hearts like nothing else. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a short, plump woman in her late forties, with eleven children and a russet-colored wart on her chin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then there was the daily forty milligrams of OxyContin she took to cope. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Standing behind the desk was a man in his forties with a goatee and the droopy eyes of an ex-heroin addict. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The day after Louis and Regina Borgenicht sold out their first lot of forty aprons, Louis made his way to H. B. Claflin and Company. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z A cup of coffee with my dad usually lasted about forty thousand miles, maybe fewer this Saturday since Mom was hurriedly finishing the family’s New York packing job. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Stannis would be left with thirty or forty galleys, at a guess; more than enough to bring his whole host across, once they had regained their courage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I have a hundred dollars saved up. I just need forty more.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy- two thousand pounds of explosives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z MICHAEL: We've had packages from over forty states, and countries all around the world. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z By eleven forty, she was convinced that Virgil Salinas had met a terrible fate and it was time to consult the crystals. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Beneath that page is another, then another, thirty or forty spirals, each taking up a whole sheet, all in the same severe lead. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I have exchanged my chewing tobacco with Katczinsky for his cigarettes, which means I have forty altogether. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I ended up with probably somewhere between thirty- five and forty cans of coffee. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas had charged thirty or forty feet into the woods, dodging and ducking and losing ground with every second, when the beetle blade jumped onto a particularly large tree and scooted up its trunk. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then, in 1986, pushing forty, he took a vacation in Colorado, felt the siren song of the heights, and enrolled in a rudimentary mountaineering course in Rocky Mountain National Park. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I moved here forty years ago when Mother and Father’s house burned down. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z With each stride, he pivoted on the leg, holding the line of the turn at close to forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I says, giving her the forty dollars. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Last came the conqueror himself, led by forty elephants holding torches to light his way. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Assuming the crop came on strong, I couldn’t harvest forty acres on my own. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “It were forty years back, but that’s nothing to a witch. Some of ’em live to many times that.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Rolling to his left, he lofted a pass forty yards downfield, the spiral true and perfect. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess it’s obvious that Jimmy was kind of weird, because no normal person would have given forty- minute-a-day jobs to three sixth graders. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Not to mention me turning forty last year, which was no picnic, but people always guess me not a day over thirty so who’s counting? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The temperature had dropped a good forty degrees in the night in one of those unpredictable fronts that swept down from the Amarillo plains. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The heat from the burning barn, shed, and fence was so hot that the O’Learys’ house, forty feet away, began to smolder. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The envelope contains the notebook she sent him forty years before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes Amari was rescued by the redheaded sailor, but on most nights she was just another female body to be used by one of the forty or so sailors on board that awful ship. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard to stand on your hind legs when you weigh more than forty men. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The two have been close friends for forty years. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z At a distance, and condensed by the curved space of the mirror, there are three small figures, dressed in the winter clothing of the girls of forty years ago. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "Mister Monday," said Victoria Forester with disdain, "is five and forty years of age if he is a day." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Burt was forty years old and married to a girl half his age of whom he was insanely jealous. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z "So if we skip inspections and testing, we have a one in forty chance of mission failure?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s about forty minutes south of San Francisco proper.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We had to be back in Davis Square in forty minutes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z We pay two hundred and forty dollars each, the kind of price you can get away with charging people whose savings accounts would go to waste otherwise. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z One of them, a thick-bodied, flatnosed woman of forty years, blessed Dany haltingly in the Common Tongue, but from the others she got only flat black stares. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Goldman was from Queens, a streetwise, muscled Air Force veteran in his forties, and I considered him a stalwart. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them were at least forty rows of seats, and those were the good seats. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z As a result of the delay he misses his commuter rail connection in Boston, waits another forty minutes for the next one. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For forty years, she reminded Ishmael, she and Mr. Crow had lived right there at South Beach. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He’s white, midthirties to early forties, has a brown buzz cut and a thin scar over his top lip. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Grace was forty weeks and three days when homecoming rolled around. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “He took about forty pounds,” the old man said aloud. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The house—for the most part designed by Mr. Clutter, who thereby proved himself a sensible and sedate, if not notably decorative, architect—had been built in 1948 for forty thousand dollars. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The fuzzy cloud comes and goes, and now he looks forward to the pleasure of the brightly colored pictures in the comic book that he has gone through thirty, forty times. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z On Thursday I even read for forty, which I never even thought was possible, unless you were Grandpa Park with his newspaper. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Each of these missiles carried a warhead equal in destructive power to forty Little Boys—or forty times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Eventually a huge crowd—nearly forty thousand people—gathered. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If I had to guess, he was around thirty-five, forty years old, staring down another thirty-five, forty years of the same. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In fact, it is only one third that of earth, so that a typical male astronaut would weigh around sixty pounds and a female astronaut forty pounds. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “How about by car'” “It must be over two thousand miles It would be at least forty hours of driving time. Some pretty country to see, though.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Turner was standing forty feet above the writhing sea, waiting for a swell big enough to keep him from splattering on the rocks and hoping he wouldn’t throw up before he went under. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Along with assorted friends and family members—for a total of forty travelers—they had piled into a luxurious sleeper car, named Benares, provided by the Chicago & Alton Railroad. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z So the best place to attack was on the western shore, a place called Empress Augusta Bay, forty miles from the nearest large Japanese base on Bougainville’s other side. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z An old billboard for Bubba’s Gas n’ Grub indicated they were still forty miles from the first Topeka exit. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Dr. Charles Leale, seated in the front of the first balcony, about forty feet from the president’s box, had arrived in time to witness it all. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He also had over forty pistols and automatic rifles. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “I’m fixing Skee-Ball machines for eight forty an hour and there’s a hundred grand waiting for us.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z It was like all forty plus people in the restaurant quit talking at the same time. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Never too much: If she had forty dollars in her wallet, I might take four or five of those dollars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was more than forty years before a crashed plane and a body were found that were believed to be hers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Over the next forty years, giving as many as 250 speeches a year, speaking to more than one million people, he did just that, holding his audiences spellbound with his fire-and-brimstone style of preaching. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Sister Mary Suzanne was about forty then, a frail, gentle woman from Japan who could speak no English. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Dedicated to her career, she had put off marriage until she was well into her forties. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z We passed forty or fifty cabin doors and heard no sound behind any of them. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “Mister, that water’s been evaporated for forty centuries.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Unable to catch herself, she pitched into a somersault at forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened his wallet and handed me forty bucks. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z She had only to stretch her neck or rise on some pretext to see twenty or forty undressed males lounging or playing ball in the sunlight. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Back in the forties and fifties and sixties, the areas of occupation had been clearly understood. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Linksfield was a long walk from my house, nearly forty minutes, but still doable. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In forty degrees, I sweat like iced tea in August and here I woke up this morning to eighty-three on the dial. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Playing my hunches, many a day I’d have up to forty dollars on two numbers, hoping for that fabulous six hundred-to-one payoff. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “He got stuck and they had to feed him for forty days and then he finally died.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Orpheus Fisher, Marian’s sweetheart and her husband of more than forty years, died in 1985 at the age of eighty-five. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Buck’s one hundred and forty pounds had dwindled to one hundred and fifteen. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z All I needed to do was raise another forty dollars and I’d be able to get them here. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I mean she couldn’t escape the memories, and maybe never left her seat in the train station for the next forty years. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Although he briefly owned one slave, Duke was not known as a supporter of slavery, but in late 1863, when Duke was in his forties, the Confederacy began drafting men his age. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The German shuts the wardrobe doors and hobbles away, and Marie-Laure stays on the bottom rung of the ladder for a count of forty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Drew had at least eight inches and forty pounds on her. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Among nearly forty I didn’t see a single state that hadn’t a good word to say for itself. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Ged's spirits lifted with the first lifting of the forty long oars, and the drumbeat that kept the stroke made a brave music to him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “But Twenty-seventh Air Force says I can go home with forty missions.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She and Irene went back to Harlem in the forties when Ma first came to New York. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t watch much television. You know I don’t have a computer. In a lot of ways my life is just as it was twenty or even forty years ago.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They were in their early forties then, married nearly twenty years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After forty years of persecution and banishment, the ANC was now a legal organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If Gaea was telling the truth, Sammy had been dead for over forty years. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Russian was well dressed, his red hair swept back; he appeared to be in his forties. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “He sort of lost some revenue. The Corporation posted second, third, and fourth quarter losses totaling around forty billion? So, you know, they had to make some sacrifices, let some workers go.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Bill was coded as defensive, as it turned out, for forty of the first sixty-six seconds of their conversation. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z See, Granddaddy was a city maintenance worker for forty years. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z By the end of the day all forty were filled in, with names such as Minnie Mouse and Darth Vader and The Swamp Thing. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The first of the black doctors to move there, in the forties when she graduated, had a son five years her junior. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The room was small, and about forty people attended. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “You will have forty minutes for this test. I suggest you use your time wisely.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z But really forty days, because those were the school days and we had to travel to Karen’s house to use the books. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Did you miss the commendation ceremony where I was rewarded for the disposal of forty illegals?” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know how many forty- and fifty-year-old errand boys went down the Hill dressed like ambassadors in black suits and white collars, to downtown jobs “in government,” “in finance,” or “in law.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The earth moves two thousand miles, the distance from Chicago to Burnt Mill Creek, in one minute and forty seconds,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z So he sent our Grandfather a letter winch bid him to stuff him and garnish him, far within forty days he would fetch him out of the strongest castle that he had!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the space of a few hours I’d become forty years old. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I taught in Detroit for one year, in the late forties. I remember a funny story about that.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now my arm was twenty feet long, thirty, forty, fifty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I hear the Welsh sentry outside. We can count the paces and can tell how far away he is. One, two, three, four—” They counted forty paces. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “I been votin’ the straight ticket for forty years,” he said. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was perhaps five and forty years, with pale eyebrows and small eyes like apple seeds. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “We won! Four hundred and fifty to a hundred and forty! We won!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Old Rit and Ben were now living forty miles to the north of Bucktown, in another county, but on a farm that belonged to Dr. Thompson. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I had underestimated its height—we’re a good forty yards above the boulders of the riverbank and facing a wide area of nothingness. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It was a good forty miles from the Bridge to Bag End, but someone made the journey in a hurry. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “There wasn’t much funding for treating blacks in the forties and fifties,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The guys in her band were all at least forty years old, and treated her like she was a snot-nosed little kid. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I had been given forty dollars in travel money, along with my bus ticket. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They were not in the least confused; they were making seven rats look like twenty rats, or forty, a steady stream of them. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll pay you two dollars an hour, and that comes to twenty hours to earn forty dollars. And the work ain’t easy.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Pong had their schedules memorized, and he knew they wouldn’t get up for another forty minutes, when they changed shifts. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Seems,” Bando said, “she must be one of those three. She’s somehow survived all the hazards of her first forty days.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes as much as forty feet long, they have two to five rooms, and are complete with air-conditioners, toilets, baths, and invariably television. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell him fourteen but I have over forty and I’m not telling him because you never have to tell the truth to people who lie about your bad eyes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z He had done nothing much for forty years but tend his bees. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z He says the prayers of one child like us are worth more in heaven than the prayers of ten cardinals and forty bishops. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Even in his forties, he kept it alive, but maybe he’s living a little through me, now.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Dr. Holyoke said, “In hard money, not quite forty pounds. Will you give us a week to raise the money?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “They spoke outside. They walked our property for thirty or forty minutes.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z As the game progressed, Bobby had only twenty minutes remaining on his clock to make the required forty moves, and he’d so far completed just sixteen of them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “For forty years you were a berry farmer?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We couldn't do none of the things we could've done for you thirty or forty years back. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z His endowments were of a purely physical order—a 4.4 speed in the forty, a skillful ability to play both defensive back and running back, a reputation for hard, tireless work on the held. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Its smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at least forty years past. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Some small plain ones. We’ll learn about patterns later. Cast on a row of, oh, let’s say forty stitches, and we ’ll start at the calf.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “There are forty of you. But we only have room for twelve on the varsity and twelve on the junior varsity.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of these items were over forty years old, and so free digital copies of them could be downloaded from the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Nana couldn’t remember that I’d visited her two days earlier, but she remembered every detail of something that had happened more than forty years ago. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Leathers and Jax were older men, well past forty, sons of the haunted forest, with sons and grandsons of their own. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nothing fatal, but headaches all around in about forty minutes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She heard running water maybe thirty or forty feet below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Lustig said, “But suppose, by accident, in space, in time, we got lost in the dimensions and landed on an Earth that is thirty or forty years ago.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z On the evening of April 15, 1943 , about forty physicists gathered in what used to be the library reading room of the Los Alamos Ranch School. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What is it that Marv intends to do with forty thousand dollars? I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z An old wound he had received fighting forty years ago in the French and Indian Wars had stiffened up on him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mackenzie is currently addicted to a video game that she won’t stop playing until she beats it, forty or fifty game-hours from now. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Your mom’s office is all the way downtown, forty minutes away at least, and your dad’s is even farther. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z He’ll probably end up living in his mom’s basement until he’s forty. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z For a while it took ten paper dollars to equal one silver dollar, then twenty, then forty. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Cox has forty former slaves living on his farm, it is too dangerous for Booth and Herold to stay on the property. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z If Grandma thought Dad was going to be a good helper, his new foreman thought he was the worst he had encountered in forty years, man and boy, of bricklaying. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z One year later there had been only one murder involving members of those seventy-five gangs—compared with between forty and fifty killings in each of the previous two years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Nemur is an attractive woman, early forties, blonde hair, lots of make-up and long red nails. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Two hundred and forty divided by three trash cans is eighty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z There were forty men on the crew and six officers. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z If you or someone you love is named Cindy or Brenda and is over, say, forty, and feels that those names did not formerly connote a low-education family, you are right. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “It belonged to a nice little old lady who never drove it over forty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jean Louise, that was forty years ago—” “He’s probably the Grand Dragon by now.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I recognized the twinkle in his eyes, but his face ... he looked like he’d aged forty years. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Soon our camp population is reduced to forty girls, ranging in age from ten to thirteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Researchers had long believed that human cells contained forty- eight chromosomes, the threads of DNA inside cells that contain all of our genetic information. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He then made me memorize the words twenty, thirty, forty, etc., then told me to add one, two, three, and so on. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty to forty thousand children from France and Germany set off to Palestine, believing that God would favor their cause because of their faith, love, and poverty. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “It counts for forty percent of your overall,” Tiara said as she practiced a circle turn in place. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And what’s worse, whenever a King died, forty of his wives would have to be killed and buried with him! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On the average, the Sun and the planets spend forty million years in a spiral arm, eighty million outside, another forty million in, and so on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At a point where the stream flowed about forty feet below the road she pulled over and guided the children down a fairly steep slope to the water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thirty to forty group!” yapped a piercing female voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Must be around twenty- five and here she was around forty. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z In the course of a day you may hear “Teen-Age Angel” thirty or forty times. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z From the bag he’d brought back from the hospital, he saves his father’s wallet, containing forty dollars, three credit cards, a wad of receipts, photographs of Gogol and Sonia when they were babies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z College students don’t have as wide a circle of acquaintances as people in their forties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When he died in 1844, forty thousand people viewed the coffin, and the funeral cortege stretched for two miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Finally, they settled on a novel written more than forty years earlier. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Most miners died in their forties, if not before. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Joe blanket, and on top of it sat what had to have been some forty or fifty stuffed animals. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I needed only forty more dollars to pay for my family’s passage, minus what Mr. Stieglitz had just given me, but even that felt impossible. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My mother, in this home movie marked “Easter ’62,” is two years from turning forty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Look,” Obiora said, lowering his voice as if the group of about forty students jogging past could possibly hear him. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Some blacks were able to cross over into the white markets in the forties if their talents were not too much connected with the blues or low-down black music. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z If he could get into the current and move with it and stay with it, a hundred miles would take thirty-five or forty hours. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z —Well, the game was over ’bout nine- thirty and we was till in a good mood ’cause we won big—by something like forty points, so we was gonna celebrate. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some are forty feet long with two levels, sturdy wooden walls, brightly painted roofs, and strands of colorful beads hanging over the doors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Until then, the yard belonged to their squires, who ranged in age from ten to forty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I no longer had forty pounds of TBX radio to hide behind and I needed to get to cover as fast as I could. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z This group were mostly in their forties and fifties, largely white, highly educated — many had Ph.D.’s — and wealthy. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “She sent me forty dollars in June, sir,” I explained. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Then the sea sucked down, revealing a red, weedy square forty feet beneath Ralph's left arm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z On Alex’s map, nevertheless, the broken line meandered west from the Parks Highway for forty miles or so before petering out in the middle of trackless wilderness north of Mt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z During the later part of the campaign, riots broke out in Port Elizabeth and East London in which more than forty people were killed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It must have been the work of one of the great smiths of forty or fifty years ago. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Gall led the charge and Crazy Horse followed, and forty or so mounted warriors were close behind them. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It was staffed by forty or fifty people, some in white coats, others in overalls, all wearing armbands of different colors: red, yellow, blue, and green. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z One hundred and twenty kids with two pieces of trash each is two hundred forty things to throw away. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Tocks Dam would have held one of the largest artificial reservoirs in the world, with forty miles of water behind it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But above us, forty feet from the ground, Timothy said, was a feast Big, fat green coconuts. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If two trains started from opposite ends of the track and one train was going forty miles an hour and the other twenty miles an hour, how long would it take...? This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was about forty meters beyond the cemetery. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In a mirror image above, at least forty people dangle from the ceiling by harnesses, squeegeeing off the already pristine dome ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z By the time Dad came back to help pack up shop and go home, I’d sold over my goal of forty cups. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Besides, my trip to Ares 4 will be at least forty days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Although I am of steely constitution, the other passengers cannot endure over forty hours of this. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It’s at least forty kilometers per hour, with a few gusts that would send us flying if we weren’t linked. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z That first year, he got in the habit of arriving at school by six a.m., a routine he would maintain for the next forty years. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I also went from twenty hours a week to forty, on top of my schoolwork. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I risked a quick glance over my shoulder, and they were maybe forty feet back now, I saw with relief. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Almost forty species of cotton exist worldwide, of which four have been domesticated, two in the Americas, two in the Middle East and South Asia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’ll take forty minutes to get all the way back downtown. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z It took me perhaps twenty minutes to walk down, fill the three bottles, and walk back, so when I returned to the AT it had been about forty minutes since I had seen Katz. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z —Gethenians tend to have their children young; most of them, after the age of twenty-four or so, use contraceptives, and they cease to be fertile in the female phase at about forty. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z This was me at the age of forty, a little bit June Cleaver, a little bit Mary Tyler Moore. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When I telephoned Mayfield, in what seemed no time at all I was sitting in his home surrounded by about forty black American expatriates; they had been waiting for my arrival. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hell, welfare’ll get you more than forty bucks a week,” she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The pond—remember, forty feet across—was filling up with all kinds of dead fish until its surface was no longer black but silver. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The crowd had begun forming some forty hours earlier, but up to twenty-four hours before, there were still fewer than one thousand. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z House cleaners, like Linda Bates, five thirty or forty miles away. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z My mom always said I could outtalk any forty lawyers—I agreed it would be a good fit. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Regina began to cut the gingham—small sizes for toddlers, larger for small children—until she had forty aprons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Blizzards came and the temperatures dropped to thirty and forty below zero, and those who stayed at hunting camp spoke only in Eskimo and did only Eskimo things. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He might have been forty, he might have been older. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Some people even rented out their papers, for a dollar a day; one copy sold for an astounding forty dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Shin’s mother again fell to her knees at the meeting, as forty of her fellow farm workers followed the bowijidoworis lead and berated her for failing to fill her work quota. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was an indoor waterslide snaking around the glass elevator, which went straight up at least forty floors. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square red rock in the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z We used to live forty miles away, but Gram needed to be taken care of, and Mom wanted a bigger house. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I drop the envelope with my forty dollars in it on the desk. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z That gave him more than forty thousand people. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It took me until around now to understand what she meant by that because he just turned forty and nothing has changed. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z One rainy afternoon while walking into town, I crossed paths with an unkempt, agitated man who appeared to be about forty. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Though I doubted much that lovers’ behavior had changed so much in forty years, I did not contradict Elnora. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Just the journey, not our troubles. Sylvie laughed. “As freed slaves we were given forty acres and a mule. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t my costume awful? My stylist’s the biggest idiot in the Capitol. Our tributes have been trees for forty years under her. Wish I’d gotten Cinna. You look fantastic.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z As moves were made on the board, they were simultaneously shown on forty closed-circuit television monitors, in all points of the stadium. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They keep the gym at about forty degrees because “a little cool air never hurt anyone.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He hired me on the spot for forty dollars a week, in cash. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z That wall was said to be forty feet thick at its narrowest, and near eighty on the seaward face, a double course of stones with an inner core of sand and rubble. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We were thrown backward on a wave that must’ve been forty feet high. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The residents start drifting in forty minutes before breakfast is ready, by walker and wheelchair or just marching stiffly on their own power, and scuffle briefly over who sits where. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Four-year-old Chinese children can count, on average, to forty. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z After forty minutes of volleyball, we hurry back to the locker room to change and get our backpacks and stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z On one side of the room—to his right—there was a row of forty or so large white pods that looked like enormous coffins. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He was probably about forty, forty-five, but he was dressed younger, in a pair of loose jeans and a Red Wings sweater. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Mom takes one look at the price of the cheapest option and shouts, “No way, Jose! Abuela only sent you twenty dollars—” It takes all my willpower to not point out Abuela sent forty. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “That was a command, not an offer. It is forty leagues to Greyguard. Pack up your arms and armor, say your farewells, and be ready to depart at first light on the morrow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The huge head was up near the rafters, forty or fifty feet in the air. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Like everyone else, I turn the corner on occasion and set my biological age back substantially—but like many scythes, I don’t set it back past the age of forty. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A tall man who appeared to be in his early forties, with a shock of silvery hair, wheeled an aluminum bike into a paneled office, then reemerged to greet me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Five forty? Does that sound familiar to you?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z One day I heard a sucker stop and offer him forty bucks—that’s forty more than it was worth. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And in those last two hundred yards, in an extraordinary burst of speed, rowing at forty strokes per minute, pounding the water into a froth, Washington passed California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We weren’t, and for the forty thousandth time in the last two days, I went over it all again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Tipping the scales at up to 1,450 pounds, he can sustain speeds of forty miles per hour. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They were living an alternative lifestyle forty years after the rest of the world had given it up. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z “Viktor Krum used an incomplete form of Transfiguration, which was nevertheless effective, and was second to return with his hostage. We award him forty points.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The two leaders stood facing each other, about forty feet apart. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z ‘You!’ cried Johnny hotly; ‘that old man—if he is a man! Why, he must be about forty. Cilia, you’re lying to me if you say anybody’s talking of marrying you.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Within forty minutes, Bobby exited the building with a big smile on his face: He had a new U.S. passport, valid until 2007. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath the plane. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Three thousand Americans would die of the heat that week, forty of them in New York City. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It weighed as much as forty men, and was cold to the touch. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The shed was about forty or fifty feet behind the house. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Roland Mathers, who is kind of a know-it-all and talks like he’s forty, raises his hand and starts to speak even before she calls on him. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The town square is situated forty feet from the road and consists of nothing more than a dried up piece of land and a few trees. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembers something a santera told her nearly forty years ago, when she had decided to die: “Miss Celia, there’s a wet landscape in your palm.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z ALBUS: As pleasurable as it will be to hide in a hole with you for the next forty years . . . they’ll find us. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z She heard him give a reading more than forty years ago at the Principal de la Comedia Theater. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least forty people...lie dead..., their bodies burned and distorted.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Men in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies all took off their hats and headed inside—and so did I. We ate cucumber sandwiches and drank cups of tea. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The plane circled over Norfolk, Virginia, for nineteen minutes, above Atlantic City for twenty-nine minutes, and forty miles south of Kennedy Airport for another twenty-nine minutes. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Her face once had dark, very Indian features, but it was puffed out of shape now, sensual still, but well over there on the sad side of her early forties. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On his first voyage in 1492, Columbus started a colony of about forty men on the island he called Hispaniola, which is currently divided into the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “At least forty. Maybe fifty. No sign of our friends, as far as I can tell. They all seem to be arguing about something, but I can’t tell what they’re saying.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z If twenty dollars could do so much, I wondered, what could forty do? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Dicey decided that forty would be the amount to keep in her pocket. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It was what I had spent forty years looking for, what I wanted my life and life story to be. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z And probably that was why, among the one hundred and forty runners waiting at the starting line, Mr. Hupfer was able to find me so easily. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “One hundred forty dollars a month for the two of us.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She looked like a hippie who’d been kicked to the side of the road maybe forty years ago, where she’d been collecting trash and rags ever since. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “He was trying to find out who he was, but in the meantime, I had to figure it out, too, because all of the sudden I was a single woman in my forties.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We drove through slowly, of necessity, since the campus drives have cement ridges every forty or fifty feet that would cause your car to bump badly if any speed were attempted. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, Nielsen confirmed, about forty large barrels were being filled with heavy water. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He rifled through Shin’s pockets and those of the forty other six-year-olds in his class. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A year later they guided another group of seven to the top on an afternoon when forty people reached the summit in a single day. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The car was to pick us up at the hotel in forty minutes, and we stopped at the café on the square where we had eaten breakfast, and had a beer. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z After a brief stop at the police station, we were joined by another officer and went to my office, which they searched for another forty- five minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re going to leave big holes for your nose. And the whole thing will be dry in less than forty minutes. You can wash your face right afterward. Promise.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z During the day, no one can hurt me, but at night, as I drift off to sleep, sandwiched among forty girls, away from Chou, my mind wanders and dreams of my family, keeping me awake. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Both were Hungarian-born physicists, both about forty, both Jews who had fled from Europe as Adolf Hitler rose to power. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s see, the tangent of forty degrees is about point eight-four. Call it point eight. Multiply that by nine hundred and sixty...” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There must of been thirty or forty people crowded around, and they got quiet just from the sight of her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z American children at that age can count only to fifteen, and most don’t reach forty until they’re five. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z My forty- pound body refuses to walk any more. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you had a sixty/forty chance of getting it,” Mom says. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As many as forty people have been here at one time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of that, I got to play the drum set for an hour and forty minutes straight. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The trying forty days of Lent lay ahead of us, then the shining goal, Easter Sunday and first holy communion! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The more viable option was transportation to the unsettled lands of the American West, along the lines of the Indian removal program adopted over forty years later. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “We need to get to that ledge. About forty feet down.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They had a database, they boasted, with forty thousand separate entries in it. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z They meet the doctor, a genial man in his early forties. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826 and gained legal freedom a year later when a New York law freed slaves under age forty. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In exchange, the au pair was to help out with child care for up to forty five hours per week, five and one half days per week. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In this Interzonal, the time limit was forty moves in two and a half hours and sixteen moves per hour thereafter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Visible light has a wavelength of between only forty and eighty millionths of a centimeter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The peephole had been useless for a good forty years. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some months later, when I was talking to Ginny, she remembered Paul’s call and said, “I just think it’s so cool that at forty he still does that. I’d miss it if he didn’t.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I walk away from the stand, trying not to picture the kind of explosion that would have killed forty people. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A white man was not too unusual if he had a ten-, twenty-, thirty-, forty-, or fifty-thousand-dollar-a-year job. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It never seemed to go above forty degrees Fahrenheit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was believed to be forty- seven, although she was often vague about her actual birthdate and may have been three years older. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z When I sing the last line, I open my eyes and realize the original crowd of six has turned into a mini-audience of about forty gathered around me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Black Dog was a strange, brooding man in his forties. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you got to do more than that, boy, because I paid thirty-five dollars for that dog, and I want forty to let him go.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “It must have been really special. I had to wait for forty minutes to go in.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z By the 1920s they had dwindled to forty or fifty million in the entire hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A tall, heavyset spinster, about forty years old, she always wore a scarf on her head, tied beneath the chin, even during class, and she spoke with a slow, careful Appalachian accent. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Janis had died of a drug overdose over forty years ago. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z As forty thousand voices shouted them on, War Admiral found something more. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I was born and raised in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, a small middle-class town forty miles outside Philadelphia. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They were just minnows, but they looked edible, and I would have loved to eat thirty or forty of them for breakfast. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The landlady, a woman of around forty or so, appears to regard me as a rather grand visitor on account of Mr Farraday's Ford and the high quality of my suit. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It took her another forty minutes on foot to reach the little house on Winslow, and by the time she got there she knew something was wrong. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We’re up by forty at the end of the third quarter, and so Coach puts in the second squad. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My father said, “George, when we planted these trees, we only had forty acres and most of it rock.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The beach, I now believed, was about forty yards wide in most places, stretching all the way around the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “They say they gotta building in New York forty stories high!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As he jumped to the thirteenth, almost forty feet high now, he leaned precariously to one side. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He was not yet forty, and already there were legends about him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I polished Beethoven off in forty minutes, long before the rest of the class. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Dad had just turned forty when the Feds laid siege to the Weavers, an event that confirmed his worst fears. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But other scientists thought there was a layer of dust on the surface which in places might be thirty or forty feet thick! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For they were leaving the shoreline now, and their course was taking them out over a wide bay thirty or forty miles across. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the forty years I taught at St. Vincent de Paul Academy, I never once encountered an eighteen-year-old saint,” Father Mulrooney declared. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Even when he was forty he had looked his present age, which was fifty-five. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He ran the place alone, aside from the forty minutes a day that we were there. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I hand her an envelope with forty dollars from what I’ve saved from the Miss Myrna column, my allowance, money Mother has forced into my hands for beauty parlor appointments I never went to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Probably only on the far side of forty. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was a handsome man, even if he was old; he was almost forty. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I’ve been living in this area for over forty years, and I’ve seen a lot of changes: different types of people, different activities that the people do. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then why not wait until I’m forty, she said. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs Barnet, the widow of Mr Charles Barnet, was at that point in her forties - a very handsome, some might say glamorous lady. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z While forty thousand people have been vaccinated since the epidemic began, the ultimate goal is to inoculate a hundred thousand Haitians. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Have mercy, should be the first lesson in this city, how to say the phrase instantly in forty signs and tongues. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She has a son and a daughter who appear to be in their early forties, and at least three grandchildren. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The last forty or fifty miles seemed particularly grim and forbidding, most of it being in die Strellon Game Reserve. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly Dermer s crew realized they were sailing along the border of a cemetery two hundred miles long and forty miles deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They said he hadn't missed a train at the beginning of school in forty years, and that he could pick out a Southerner with one glance. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I was in my office, talking to Jimmy Dill on the night of his execution, and I realized I was thinking about something that had happened nearly forty years earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At six forty she collects her white cane from the corner, loops a finger through the back of her father’s belt, and follows him down four flights and up six blocks to the museum. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He realized, of course, that he’d worked at forty houses, at least, and couldn’t remember every plant in every yard. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “But, my dear sir, the difference of the journey;—only consider how great it would have been.—An hundred miles, perhaps, instead of forty.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z From the middle of May to the end of July he paints almost forty scenes of parks full of bright colors and thick paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I saw some setting out to walk the forty miles. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The first animals, creatures like worms and jellyfish, appeared only when she was forty. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I wore a black shantung sheath that cost me forty dollars. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Six blocks, forty buildings, ten tiny trees in a square. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So the day came and he and Henry rode the forty miles again, into the gates and up the drive to the house. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked putting heel down first, toes pointing outward thirty to forty degrees, making the ideograph “eight,” making the ideograph “human.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She must have been somewhere in her forties. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He had gone thirty or forty feet when he noticed the cave’s walls were closer together. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Highcamp was a worldly but unaffected, intelligent slim, tall blonde woman in the forties, with an indifferent manner and blue eyes that stared. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z As the autumn of 1933 began to wane, daytime temperatures in Seattle sagged into the low forties, evening temperatures into the twenties. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Marshalls have been active about the courts since the late forties, defending their good names with a most expensive ferocity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the moment I’m reading Emperor Charles V, written by a professor at the University of Gottingen; he’s spent forty years working on this book. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The home I’d grown up in had had five bedrooms; now it had been expanded in all directions and looked as though it had at least forty. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They all sat there for nearly forty minutes, spending the majority of that time silent in awe of the unreal situation unfolding in front of them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Farmer was forty now, a medical superstar, and he had the credentials to operate in the way Hiatt envisioned, the way that Jim Kim liked to operate—on an executive level. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z One spectator at the exhibition that evening was Carmine Nigro, a short, bald man in his early forties; Bobby described him as “cheery.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "Past forty, I bet. And he has a bad belly. Do you think he'll be lord?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Amid the chaos, a grown man—he appeared to be in his forties—marched up to the van, looking like he wanted to kill us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He knew that the circumference of the Earth was forty thousand kilometers, and that only the male cardinal was bright red. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “The most famous Greek statue of all time. It was forty feet tall, covered in ivory and gold. It stood in the middle of the Parthenon in Athens.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Giants lumbered amongst them, forty feet tall, with mauls the size of oak trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z First there had been the awful humiliation of the Great Loyalty Oath Crusade, when not one of the thirty or forty people circulating competitive loyalty oaths would even allow him to sign. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z All forty churches and eleven rectories that make up the diocese give food and money for the effort. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He looks just as he did on the cover of Time magazine back in 2014, a tall, thin, healthy man in his early forties, with unkempt hair and his trademark horn-rimmed eyeglasses. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Siddhartha was silent, and they played the game of love, one of the thirty or forty different games which Kamala knew. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam Hooch awarded both teams penalties, and Wood pulled off another spectacular save, making the score forty—ten to Gryffindor. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Billingsley, despite a noble effort, looked like a Lilliputian trying to block defensive ends and line-backers who were seven inches taller and forty pounds heavier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They are in fact the logos from old gas pumps of the forties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The guy laying on the sidewalk was about forty or something. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Tata’s parents fled the Nazis and ended up in Argentina in the forties. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I think Mom is crazy—until forty minutes later when the lady comes back. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "And forty more—twenty knights with as many squires. If I arrive without a knightly tail, the Tyrells will think me of small account." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When the fiery ladder stood forty feet high, the mage leapt forward and began to climb it, scrambling up hand over hand as quick as a monkey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The discovery of America was crucial in legitimizing innovation because within forty years no one disputed that it really was an unprecedented event, and one that could not be ignored. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Some doctors warn we may see a thousand dead before it’s over. There are forty-thousand people living in Philadelphia, William. Can you imagine if one in forty were to die?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It can wait exactly forty seconds while I take all the money away from you,” said Beatty, happily. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z But when I searched the whole Web, I found something interesting buried forty entries down on a forum about real estate in Kansas. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It was one of the things a man learned gradually, but after forty years of springs and runs and carrying buckets and keeping fires, he knew whether the syrup was right or wasn’t. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Past the edge of our neighborhood, there was nothing to see except corn for about forty miles. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It was small group, maybe thirty or forty demigods in battle armor, mounted on skeletal horses. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Little by little, support for the town’s original high school ebbed away, the fanaticism of the forties and fifties being replaced by bitterness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been decreed over forty years before that the building, in appearance a small church with a spire, was a listed building of historical interest. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It had stood there, back in the thick trees—not thirty or forty feet away—and watched me drilling holes. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z At forty- four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m trying to get you fired up, Ben. There’s people come to watch you, son. You ought to go for about forty big ones tonight,” Colonel Meecham said, unable to contain his ecstasy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z All I knew was I was forty years old and I didn’t mean to be here when I was forty, locked with this genius shrink wife and this balloon son. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I got over it, darling. It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He was about forty, Malcolm thought, with black hair and bright brown eyes, and all his features were clear and easy to see, as if he was a very well-lit photogram. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Valeska was a white man in his forties whose fit, medium frame suggested someone who stayed active; the glasses he wore added to his serious demeanor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z That summer, Lewis took her daughter on a trip to Liberty, Texas, a small city about forty miles from Houston, on the banks of the Trinity River. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For forty years his mission was his life and his life was his mission. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He found forty, of which he only really liked two: "rose rot” and "to err so.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z At our first rest stop, only forty miles into the voyage, a man follows me off the bus and into the bathroom, standing right next to me at a urinal. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It took more than forty years for the NSA to loosen its grip. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I can’t half sleep for him raving bout clubs and clothes and forty- nine brands of beer. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It must have weighed a good forty pounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But just when it looked like the Lastrygonians were about to get overwhelmed, the next wave surged out of the maze: thirty, maybe forty dracamae in full batde armor, wielding spears and nets. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Even after forty minutes of bargaining, the black men could get the price, on average, down to only $1,551 above invoice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In the forties and fifties, most Hispanics who trickled into Odessa settled on the Southside. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Didn’t get much off me. But Perry lost his wallet, with forty or fifty dollars.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “The River Run is the first weekend in November. I did five miles with forty pounds this morning.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z If she were to fall, she'd plummet at least forty paces to the ground. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She appeared to be somewhere in that range between forty and seventy years, when it becomes difficult to precisely ascertain a black persons precise age. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z We said forty hours didn't seem like that much; we'd expected it to be longer. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “I’m picking your mom up from the train in forty minutes, so be back for dinner by then.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z For forty days, my mom sat in the chair for eight hours each day and never stopped erasing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z For forty years, in Chamisa County, there had been a tourist boom: and yet most of the profits went into a few pockets at the top. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When he ran out of the sales in the forties, he continued into the thirties and Brother Leon did not tell him to halt. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On July 28, forty actors spent twelve grueling hours filming scenes in a burning wheat field. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She looked far too young and sprightly to have worn the crown for over forty years. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But over the last forty years, evangelicals have pulled steadily closer in income and education to mainline Protestants in the historically affluent establishment denominations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The trailer could hold between fifteen and twenty bins, or about forty thousand pounds of iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Then we would have lost forty dollars. That’s what we started with, right? We lose the whole Walleye thing and all we’ve really lost is that, the original forty dollars.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Ratwatte is Sri Lankan, a lively man in his forties who has been flying commercial jets his entire adult life. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But no one wants to think about it because it brings up Link and Pamela and the swastikas and stories of what happened forty years ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The gallop turned out to be a good forty yards wide, mown to less than six inches. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman’s hair curled in forty directions, beautiful, like it had just had its hundred strokes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in the scrapbooks, some unfamiliar pictures cut from magazines: women’s bodies, in clothes of the forties, with other women’s heads glued onto them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He yearned for a bed and sheets-but the only whiteness here was the slow spilt milk, luminous round the rock forty feet below, where Piggy had fallen. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z But in the roundabout way in which God often works, I did find myself back there . . . some forty years after Mama Lessie’s death and thirty years after Grandaddy had died there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “My sweater cost me forty dollars,” the young man said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d just turned fifteen and I met this guy on the beach, much older than I was- thirties, probably, possibly even early forties—and he invited me to go sailing the next day. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face is exactly her own, though forty years younger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A typical show consists of at least forty distinct segments, none more than about three minutes — street scenes with the actors and Muppets, animation, and short films from outside the studio. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of Joseph Smith, who’d had as many as forty wives. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z About forty minutes into the drive, I saw a sign on the roadside that read university of Nigeria, nsukka, and I asked Kevin if we were almost there. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I got to have my first ambulance ride—Jeffrey squeezed my hand with all his might for about forty miles. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He had run the forty in 4.7 and he was All-State, but because of his size he knew there wasn’t a college in the world that had use for him as a football player. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If I were near I would soon convince you that I am not above forty.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Flying five hundred and forty feet is quite an achievement.” acknowledgment. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It happened quickly: Eleazar, just twenty years old, had recently graduated from Union College and returned to the family estate forty miles northwest of Albany, planning to study law under his father. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That is, until you scored three times—that was forty, not forty-five. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It is harder to escape when you are at least forty feet above the ground. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Though he wasn’t yet forty, he was in danger of becoming a relic in a Wild West traveling show, living but dead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It’ll only take thirty or forty minutes to fly back there. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z When it was done washing, I put it in the dryer for forty minutes. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “No, to Lindsey's. But we still have forty minutes to kill.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Then, from each conversation, she selected two ten-second clips of the doctor talking, so her slice was a total of forty seconds. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Sure as I’m standing here. And I happen to know you’ve got forty cents at home.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Sixty years, forty, even, is as much as anybody feels like being bothered with. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “For three months,” she said, scribbling on the notepad, “with the insulin shots, weekly blood-sugar testing, and prescription food, plus the four hundred forty dollars already sitting on the credit card from his initial tests...” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z My ten-foot curtain rods seemed a poor defense against crevasses that were forty feet across and hundreds of feet deep. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I noticed that we spent only twenty minutes on ballet, and forty minutes on tap. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The explosion had left a crater more than forty miles across–much too huge to be perceived from anywhere at ground level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z His mother hadn’t had him until she’d been well into her forties. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As they left one dark tenement and headed toward another, they spotted a group of about forty boys standing a short distance away. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z This was a man who had lost an entire regiment, about forty- five hundred men—a lot of them children, actually. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Six thousand two hundred and forty,” I said immediately. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We made it in less than forty minutes, as we were practically skipping. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z At the time of the interview, forty or fifty years later, she was dying of emphysema. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Boss? Pretty wild, huh? He’s, like, forty! Wait until you talk to him.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He was about forty feet away, crouched in the reeds as before. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It has been more than forty years since my friends were killed, and we’ve made some progress in that time. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Playing Soccer is like never hitting pause on your favorite ninety-minute movie but futsal is like fast forward for forty supercharged minutes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z If a black person says diverse neighborhood, they are thinking forty percent black. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Instead, according to Lopsang, Hall placed Hansen’s arm around his neck and assisted the weary client up the final forty feet to the summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Liza’s somewhere twixt thirty-five and forty near as we can figure. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “One of Brown’s ships brought up a load r S of rum and slaves from the islands. They must have sold thirty-five, forty people in two hours’ time.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z After forty days of bombing, they accepted the broadcast amnesty. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s Dad’s age—around forty—and even though he’s lazy and can’t mop and hates cardboard paper cuts, he has an air of confidence that Dad doesn’t have. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z ‘Your master made that creamer—forty years ago. He made the entire set.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There he coined the term physical education and took his appalled young charges on brisk rambles of thirty-five or forty miles over the neighboring mountains. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Then I told myself he was just dealing with the forty and I’d call him on it later. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z For almost forty years I have lived in England and I wish to make a gesture, something that will never be forgotten, to express my true feelings toward your country. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Soon, under an hour, there were thirty or forty small fish in the enclosure and Brian made a gate by weaving small willows together into a fine mesh and closed them in. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z She got up to forty before she heard a muffled splash coming from a long way below. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Maya ruins were well known forty years ago, to be sure, but among them, too, many new things have been discovered. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Oh, but I did say all your valuables. I understand you’re holding something very special on that ship...a certain ivory-and-gold statue about, say, forty feet tall?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One of the defectors was a woman in her forties who had crossed the border before. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The gentleman who was shown in was still fairly young - perhaps around forty or so - tall and thin; tall enough, in fact, that he was obliged to stoop to enter the doorway of the cottage. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Many wards would have been completely emptied had it not been for the admission of forty sailors—a rare type of jaundice was sweeping through the Royal Navy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s 3:54, forty- six degrees, and we’re taking you on a tour of our lives! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Secretary of State John Kerry, who more than forty years before had been the first Vietnam War veteran to testify before Congress against the war, put it more bluntly. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z J/C is down the hall, like forty feet away, and I don’t know for the life of me how Sarah suspects something out there that I couldn’t see at point-blank range. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z His voice crackled over the radio waves to an estimated forty million listeners, including President Roosevelt. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He could have been anywhere from forty to seventy years old. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then he has us do footwork drills followed by forty wind sprints 56 from the baseline to half court. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z When the snows drifted forty and fifty feet high and the ice winds came howling out of the north, the tunnels were all that held Castle Black together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was forty by birth certificate and forty by appearance—but it was a healthy, well-nourished good-natured appearance of forty; one that automatically drew the teeth of the bromide about “looking one’s age.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Twenty years later, he raised his estimate of Indian deaths—and hence of the initial population—to forty million. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Burly and broad-shouldered, forty if he was a day, and maybe older. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I saw him, Frankie. Not his face, but—but I know he’s a man. Older. In his late thirties or forties.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Inside I found a number of my colleagues who had been similarly rousted out of bed, and over the course of the night, more arrived; by morning we totaled forty in all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Church bells tolled for the dead, over forty thousand and counting. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z For example, for every dollar a consumer spends to buy eggs, forty cents finds its way back to the farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I spread and closed my fingers ten times and said, “Nope. Look. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The canvas-covered wings, which were forty feet long and six and a half feet wide, were on top of the frame s center. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “She used to give lessons. For forty years. It was how she raised us after my father died.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Hazel concentrated on the wall of jewelry next to her: forty large boxes of silver bracelets. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “At least forty gallons, Master Mandrag, depending on the quality of the material.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I did a head count: forty campers in all. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “You never had babka? It’s like a cinnamon roll times forty.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The doctors put her on strict bed rest: no more than forty minutes a day on her feet, including trips to the bathroom; no exertions. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The lifeboat and the raft had already separated as far as the rope would go, about forty feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He might have been forty, he might have been older. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Counting, Ten, twenty, thirty, forty deep into the winter until one afternoon gravity releases me and my feet fly free in the ropes, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety . . . as my grandmother watches me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “Oh yes!—there is a great difference. But Mr. Weston is almost an old man. Mr. Weston must be between forty and fifty.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z In real Egyptian times, he said, the preparation of the dead and the funeral ceremony took as much as forty days. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later, however, when Violet was forty, she was already staring at infants, hesitating in front of toys displayed at Christmas. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, forty years later, I am still ashamed of myself. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Tower-ing above the tents to a height of forty feet, the trebuchets were the siege camp’s chief landmarks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She's forty or maybe even older, and has fat silver brooches, wispy bronze hair, and flowery clothes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As Percy and Mrs. O’Leary charged onward, the entire cohort followed—forty extremely shiny gold-plated warriors screaming for blood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The sea was beginning to reach for our hilltop, climbing the forty feet with raging whitecaps. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z There was not a sound in the classroom as all forty of us stared at her in awe. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z For purposes of comparison, the average backyard swimming pool is slightly larger than this Ptolemaic wineskin, containing about forty thousand gallons of water. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The bird had been eliminated by DDT and pesticides in much of the United States in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Almost forty of the one hundred participants were arrested and taken to court, where the judge began sentencing the women to the District Jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Oh. Well, the merger triggered more interest, so the stock jumped to forty dollars a share. You have twelve thousand shares at forty dollars a share....” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Most of them were young, the sons and daughters of the first wave of Puerto Ricans who immigrated to El Barrio in the late forties and the fifties. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Soon the BBC showed up in Turner Station, asking locals about life there in the forties and fifties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Because I had four visitors and they had come a great distance, the authorities extended the visiting time from a half an hour to forty- five minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He let the phone ring twenty times, thirty, tried the line again, let it ring forty times. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mendel himself requested forty reprints, which he mailed, heavily annotated, to many scientists. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A majority of African-Americans in the “City of Opportunity” were dead before the age of forty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Among the loveliest was the Temple of Thakra, at which a dozen master sculptors had labored for forty years, two of them going blind in the process. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Although our house was one of the smaller of the forty or so houses on the island, for several years we owned the only piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But crammed into the corner with Billy was a former hobo who was forty years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Could be a hard twenty-year-old or an okay thirty or a good forty. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The speaker was a man in his forties, whose dæmon was a bedraggled-looking robin. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It is safe to say that in the forty minutes that passed between the passenger’s stroke and the landing in Helsinki, there were no more than a handful of seconds of silence in the cockpit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was not very cold out, maybe in the high forties—warmer than Tule Lake in January. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It isn’t the vast mob scene I’d been hoping for, but there must be forty kids, maybe fifty. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Then he remembered how he’d been told the cost of the flashlight was going to go up to forty bucks, and he figured it out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Do you realize that it is over forty blocks from here?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The book said that Vermeer died penniless when he was in his forties, and that almost nothing was known about his life. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It contained perhaps forty gravestones and was surrounded by a knee-high stone wall covered in slippery moss. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Back in the cabin I gave Jeremiah forty dollars. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A particularly poignant loss occurred in the summer of 1701, when the leaders of forty native nations convened in Montreal to negotiate an end to decades of war among themselves and the French. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Every day he packed forty parachutes, each time with the same meticulous care. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I rode the elevator up, the door was open, the smell brought back to me what for forty years I had struggled not to remember but couldn’t forget. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z On one side of the room—to his right—-there was a row of forty or so large white pods that looked like enormous coffins. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z Her husband had been dead for forty years, her son for fifteen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But forty minutes later, Hall was still with Hansen atop the Hillary Step, going nowhere. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It took her daddy forty years to learn to be pleasant. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A jukebox, chrome coat trees, grainy black-and-white photos on the walls, of real forties diners. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At present, her waves are topping forty feet. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1711, the company was shipping 200,000 pounds of tea a year to England, and just forty years later, that had reached three million pounds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Los Osos, once a group of neighborhood children who played along the river, became a band of forty men who move drugs and people across the Rio Grande. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Every minute now you are closer to home. You sail lighter for the loss of forty pounds.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after forty minutes, I am called out of the waiting room by an officious woman in blue scrubs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sixty-five, seventy, which, with the fifty dollars she had left from the car, made one hundred and twenty, then one hundred and forty dollars, one hundred and fifty. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the notice had advertised that the first day of the convention was for women only, about forty men were mixed in with the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z By the time he was forty he had become the wealthiest man in town. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z At the point where I last saw him when the clouds descended, a sharp left turn would have taken Harris forty or fifty feet up a rocky rise to the tents. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He should have offered us forty to play for the evening, free use of the public hall, a good meal, and beds at the inn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She had been the one, forty years before, who gave Papa the money he needed to leave Japan and sail to the Hawaiian Islands. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! yes. But you see there is a considerable difference in age: Mr. Rochester is nearly forty; she is but twenty-five.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Those had been the days back then in the postwar boom of the forties and fifties. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of the forty, one-story buildings in the village housed four families. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I watched, horrified, as she turned her attention to me, so we stared at each other through forty feet of vertical space. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z All that was left, a cliff drop of some forty feet below the heat-buckled walk, was the shell of concrete with weirdly bent and rusted rods that had been its basement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1933, Germany had forty different political parties, each one making promises as it struggled for power. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His box truck was loaded down with oxygen tanks and he was already forty minutes behind schedule. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was about forty miles from our old house, which meant I had to start at a new school. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z For almost forty years Bragg, a Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of crystallography, had been watching X-ray diffraction methods solve structures of ever-increasing difficulty.* Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z One hundred and twenty folding chairs were taken, and the forty or so people standing near the entrance were told to move near the podium and sit on the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If you have ever been within forty feet of a whippoorwill, you will under-stand why I couldn’t even shut my eyes. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Willie only earned eighteen a week and he was forty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And while it’s true that the owners of the larger yards paid me more—I was getting thirty to forty dollars a lawn the second day—there was also the distance factor. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Gared had spent forty years in the Night's Watch, man and boy, and he was not accustomed to being made light of. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Our class sizes were large—mid-thirties, sometimes close to forty—and many of our teachers were stretched to their limits just trying to keep us all from teetering over into chaos. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Pluto is about forty AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Beto told him the class was small, not even forty kids. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z What would happen to the kingdom of Prussia and its forty million inhabitants? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The officer led Blake into one of the only buildings standing, where "a big, burly man of about forty or forty-five with a pale complexion" greeted him in Russian. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the gun, beyond the embrasures, ramparts plunge forty feet to the green and white plumes of surf. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, among other honors, for his novel Native Speaker, and was selected by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best American writers under forty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Him—Tubs Casper, forty pounds overweight which his father never let him forget. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “To punish her He made her walk in sand for forty years. And she returned to her king, the Lord, and He loved her and sent her David!” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “She seemed frightfully old to me. I suppose she couldn’t have been more than forty. Susanne, of course, used to look after my clothes and maid me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Flight 93, with thirty-seven passengers and seven crew members on board, had left Newark forty minutes late because of runway congestion. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Three hundred men had charged, under Hancock’s direction; only forty had come back. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Average life expectancy was apparently just thirty to forty years, but this was due largely to the high incidence of child mortality. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I would guess his age as early forties. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z That was, of course, when an hour was up, only he didn’t have an hour; only forty minutes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “You lived there forty years. You still love New York.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At forty years old, Roosevelt led them through a hailstorm of bullets as they charged up San Juan Hill, in Cuba, and into a bloody battle. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The small patch of land in the monastery garden produced an overwhelming volume of data to analyze—twenty-eight thousand plants, forty thousand flowers, and nearly four hundred thousand seeds. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A few guys crashed with them, and we ended up with not much more than forty or so kids, so—I mean there could have been more—it wasn’t bad for a cocktail party. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She was around forty or forty-five, I guess, but she was very good looking. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He is forty, and has already lain ten months in the hospital with a severe abdominal wound. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s one thing to be old, to be forty or fifty with a broken heart, but it’s practically terminal when you’re thirteen. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She worked part-time after school at a clothing boutique that catered primarily to women forty years older than her who called her dear. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z So I jumped in my truck and roared the forty miles to Wasilla, then on down near the town of Palmer, slid into the parking lot at the shelter... This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In forty years of battling against the CIA, the Soviets had never garnered so much intelligence from a single secret agent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I hid my life—no, I didn’t hide my life, I hid who I am—for over forty years because of the way I was brought up. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z His friends thought him about thirty; he was in fact nearly forty. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z They marched her to the rabbit pen, where about forty handcuffed Smokies sat inside the wire fence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As a single woman, still youthful at forty years old, she found herself drifting toward the social sidelines. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Inside it’s pretty authentic, except that it looks too clean; and it’s less forties than early fifties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The rate surged to thirty-nine and then immediately to forty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the car, Dad took out the money he’d won and counted off forty dollars, which he passed to me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If I take Mr. Campbell's advice, I should order seven bushels of seed, all told, for my forty acres. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Chiron informed us that the Party Ponies had sent chapters from almost every state in the Union: forty from California, two from Rhode Island, thirty from Illinois . The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The school bell rang and a warning flashed in the corner of my display, informing me that I had forty minutes until the start of first period. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When she had put forty miles between herself and her first home, she was over the upper Hudson River. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z No Jacob, no Sarah S. In fact, when I go down my list of forty friends, thirty of them, in one way or another, lead back to Jacob. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She calls me from the circle of forty girls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re only supposed to know forty by conclave,” he pointed out. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He was forty years old and a grandfather, we were told, but he looked much, much younger. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day in the morning we left for Milan and arrived forty- eight hours later. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The stroke rate went up to thirty-eight, then almost immediately to forty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Two had seen at least forty namedays come and go, he guessed; the youngest was perhaps fifteen or sixteen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Once I got caught with forty pounds of hash in my suitcase and I told the customs agent it was hair henna from Egypt and he let me pass. They aren't that smart." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Three years after Parsifal opened, in 1885, German Chancellor Bismarck legislated to expel all Jews and Poles from the Prussian Reich; within forty years this ultra-German nationalism evolved into the cancerous ideology of Nazism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I saw the list of our staff, which had grown to nearly forty people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Lent had just begun, and I was always in a state during those forty days of the passion of Christ. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As we got closer, we saw about forty of Vanessa’s friends sitting in next to a bulldozer. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Liszt was moving away from the idea of music as an abstract entity, something to be listened to attentively for forty or so minutes, towards orchestral music as a representation of something extra-musical. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Brutus, a volunteer from District 2, who must be at least forty and apparently can’t wait to get back in the arena. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z A man in his late forties, older than my own father would have been, wanted to marry me and began coming to our house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve lived here for, oh, about forty years, I think. Yes, forty,” he tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah. I’m sure I’ll be there for the next forty years or so,” I joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z More than forty years later, civil rights advocacy is stuck in a model of advocacy King was determined to leave behind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She’s about forty and wears deodorant that smells like sweet smoke and makeup the color of roses. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It was all there—ten rands and forty cents. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was maybe forty feet wide but only a few inches deep, a silver sheet of water racing over a smooth bed of stones. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In 1987, all forty elected district attorneys in Alabama were white, even though there are sixteen majority-black counties in the state. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Siddhartha himself, who was only in his forties, had noticed gray hairs here and there in his black hair. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The establishment was pretty trashed, and there were forty humans out for the count. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z This past year, only eleven out of the forty kids in the eighth-grade class at Donoghue had high enough scores to graduate. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had come to the island under a refugee program Trujillo had instituted in the forties “to whiten the race.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It had relented about forty minutes after her prediction. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She’s a lovely woman, in her late thirties, maybe early forties. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He looked to be in his early forties and wore a short military haircut. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Vegetation gets thickest toward the center of the site, where the judo pavilion once stood and where rows of elms planted as windbreaks have tripled their growth since the forties. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z All the ponds had the same round shape and were about the same size—roughly forty feet in diameter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I have a forty/sixty chance of getting that job, and I’m not backing out.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In Cold Sassy, nobody under forty had ever made or waved an American Flag. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There Rutherford held forth three times a week to an audience of about forty students, occasionally consulting a few loose pages of notes drawn from the inside pocket of his coat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I found out later the wind that night was forty miles an hour with gusts up to fifty. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A local resident counts forty migrants felled here by bandits, some hacked to death with a machete. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Probably not a hundred, but figure for that anyway, figure that with him going very slowly, at a nice stroll, it might take as much as thirty seconds, forty seconds to walk all the way. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Some points were more important than others, so that the one point Mother made—“Daddy is better at Maple Hill”—would have canceled out forty points on the other side. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Our dormitory had forty beds in it, twenty' on either side of a central passageway. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mecca is about forty miles to the east, inland. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was insane, pathetic, almost criminal for a man pushing forty to feel so inept, so ashamed of his body, his heart, his work ethics, his Tinkertoy soul. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was only sixteen, but I didn’t tell the manager that and he hired me for forty hours a week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He felt with his thumb in the painted wood of the mantle the pinholes from tacks that had held stockings forty years ago. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He was a tall, austerely pleasant man of about forty, a bachelor, and a writer by profession, being the author of several historical biographies. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I guessed he was in his forties and was stronger than he knew. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “There are forty in your camp,” my father replied, “and more than that of us. Besides, you have your own fish, the dried ones that you brought.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Someone made these over forty years ago,” he said. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I take forty of the hundred pounds in the trunk and the ledger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The shelter, which I had to myself, was on a level area thirty or forty yards back from the pond and slightly above it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He was a tall, confident man in his forties who walked the streets wearing expensive suits and alligator shoes but was never mugged. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z What kind of kid can just hand over forty bucks like that? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The house is fifteen minutes from the nearest supermarket, forty minutes from a mall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But he was over forty years old by now, and wasn’t accepted. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Jimmy laughed and took a long swig off his forty bottle. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Behind the lamassu, more columns sprouted from the ground like ancient trees in a petrified forest, forty feet tall, spindly but still miraculously upright. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z My mother and father have stoked each other’s indignation for almost forty years telling stories about land quarrels among the uncles, the inlaws, the grandparents. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Any wrestler in the top forty earns at least $170,000 a year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “You may be a little older in years, but I’m ever so much older in feeling, Teddy. Women always are, and this last year has been such a hard one that I feel forty.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Until moments ago it was destined to disappear from his life altogether, but he has salvaged it by chance, as his father was pulled from a crushed train forty years ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “That you can just write a check for two hundred and forty billion dollars and fix all the world’s problems?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “For a long time. Until you are forty or even fifty.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I was maybe thirty, forty yards away from him when the black car with the tinted windows pulled up next to him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “In laying out Central Park we determined to think of no result to be realized in less than forty years.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I heard they passed the hat and collected a hundred and forty dollars to encourage those policemen to abandon their duties,” Grandma added. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I plowed him under and streaked the last forty yards to paydirt. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I never liked it all that much, too many couples just the right side of forty drinking too much and casting around for something better, wondering if they’d have the courage. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cadillac was going about forty when they hit the first ogre, who disintegrated on impact. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On Ellis Island the people were thin after forty days at sea and had no fancy luggage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She painted on over forty coats—she lost count—but by the time her lacquer had run out, the surface was at least five millimeters thick. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z How can he remember all that from almost forty years ago, but forget stuff that happened ten minutes earlier? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Still far away, forty miles at least, they saw Mount Doom, its feet founded in ashen ruin, its huge cone rising to a great height, where its reeking head was swathed in cloud. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The Otsubos had driven by at eight o’clock and seen at least forty cars and pickup trucks parked along the road near the Masons’. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On Thursday, after I’d finished scrapping, I drove forty miles to the nearest Walmart and bought a pair of women’s jeans and two shirts, both blue. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We moved straight ahead until we came within forty meters of the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "No, but the car passed me down the road, going faster'n forty. Going fifty, sixty." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z There hadn’t been a bad hurricane in New Orleans in forty years. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z For forty years they have persevered and spread God’s word. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave her forty dollars inside a card. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He was six three and weighed 190 pounds and had once been clocked in the forty in 4.37 seconds, an astounding time for someone of his size. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a thick little man of about forty. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He notes that Mars is forty million miles away from Earth. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I made my way to Classroom 4 right after my last class—forty minutes early, just to be safe. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z On the roof over his office almost forty years after this incident, Devine shuddered. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Bowdy scored twenty-four points in the first game and forty in the second game. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I’d probably wind up falling forty feet and breaking twenty-seven bones or something. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I wondered if she would have been pleased at forty miles per second. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “And after thirty to forty minutes your husband returned. Is that also right, Mrs. Heine?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Even after the conquistadors seized Qosqo, the empire regrouped in the hinterlands, where it fought off Spanish forces for another forty years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They were savvy enough to bargain for forty minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z An old villa nestled in the shade of some weird-looking pine trees with thin curvy trunks that shot up thirty or forty feet, then sprouted into puffy canopies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It would be so simple, to run full out, perhaps to even climb a tree above the fog line, which seems to top out at about forty feet. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z At forty minutes past the hour, the Mercury Theatre’s Dan Seymour announces to the audience that they are listening to a presentation of H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds on CBS Radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “You count the number of chirps in a minute, divide by four, and add forty. They’re very intelligent.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The man was in his forties with a gaunt but handsome face and a hairline making a determined retreat from his forehead. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Well, as you say, Sister Henderson, we been together over forty years. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But even after Papa married at nineteen, making forty dollars a month, he still had to send Grandpa Tweedy ten of it till the day he was twenty-one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But normally the dark wasn’t forty feet tall. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z By the time I showed up, he’d been lashed at least forty times. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Other people had been paying me forty dollars for a lawn that big and that seemed fair. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Thirty or forty keeplocks were due back from rec, and we had just heard an announcement to clear the galleries of all other inmates in anticipation of this return. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is like what happened when I went back to China last year, after I had not been there for almost forty years. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When your grandfather left me forty years ago, I erased all of his writing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Only as we were whacking the mud off our boots by the huts where the sports gear's kept did Mr. McNamara remember the three boys he'd sent to the bridge over forty minutes ago. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Similarly, nearly forty years later, researchers discovered that the Soviets had moved short-range nuclear cruise missiles into striking distance of the US military base in Guantanamo Bay. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I started spreading my fingers to count it off again but afore I could even get to forty, Pa and the new-free folks turned up the road heading toward the schoolhouse. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “No, not in those words. But he said his love was more than that of forty thousand brothers.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The biracial makeup of the team was of special significance to February, forty, a soft-spoken black paleoecologist and a climber of international renown. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The next day, I drove forty miles to the nearest bookstore and bought a glossy ACT study guide. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Marcus had said she was in her thirties back then, so she was probably in her forties now. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z My head hit the cobblestones hard and I lay there, looking up breathlessly at a man in his forties. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z So if I put twenty acres into flax and twenty into wheat, that would be the needed forty acres. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He was forty, out of baseball, and, for all intents and purposes, out of life. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And what Dr. Muller said appeared to be true: though he was only forty- two, his face was wrinkled, burdened with jowls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Each was required to be a qualified test pilot under forty years old with at least a bachelor’s degree. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Maybe the “lucky” one-third of its victims live from ten to forty years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I weigh a hundred and forty. Whatever you weigh, that’s how many you got to kill to leave early.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After speaking for forty minutes, Justice Rumpff said, “The accused are accordingly found not guilty and are discharged.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But, you say, it’s hard to stay popular for forty years. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Samuel and his boys brought in a well at forty feet and put down the newfangled expensive metal casing, for Adam wanted the best. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That three papers in the short span of three months in 1900 independently converged on Mendel’s work was a demonstration of the sustained myopia of biologists, who had ignored his work for nearly forty years. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Another division issued forth, and we all progressed forward by some forty feet in our queue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In the North, men said that it had cost anywhere between forty and a hundred thousand dollars for the United States Government to return Bums to his master. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Glumly, I watch my grandmother and about one hundred other people from forty or so different countries line up to become citizens. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When the Idaho Statesman ran its feature on Internet- obsessed kids in 1995, with Jesse as the Net-addict poster boy, he told the reporter he spent thirty-five to forty hours a week on the Net. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Real cheese come in hunks or slices, not no blanged loaf that weigh forty pounds. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have five cohorts of about forty kids each. Each cohort is divided into barracks of ten—like roommates, kind of.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She ran a homeless shelter for forty years. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The first four cohorts, each forty kids strong, stood in rows in front of their barracks on either side of the Via Praetoria. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He was a squat man in his late forties, and he looked impatient. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Thirty, maybe forty men were methodically digging the earth and laying the dead to rest. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "I made back my forty leas in the lottery now that you're here. I picked you from the beginning," another calls out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Shelves rose forty feet under an astonishing painted ceiling, and the spines of books glowed in jewel-toned leather, their gold leaf shining in the glavelight like animal eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Well, there were a lot of warriors wounded. Nobody knows exactly how many. Some say around forty warriors were killed. One of those was Crazy Horse’s best friend.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He says, “This hotel is very cheap, ma cherie. The innkeeper behind the desk said our room was forty francs a night but only twenty francs if we made our own bed.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Married and in her early forties, Rosa Parks was widely known as an activist through her work with the Montgomery NAACP. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand how you can have—did you—how did you get this? I ain’t seen this thing for forty years.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There were thirty or forty jailkeepers and a hundred and fifty or sixty prisoners, none of them very well off, most of them sound asleep though it was not much past Fourth Hour. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to forties!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He was the one who told her in the summer of 1973, when Mariam was fourteen, that King Zahir Shah, who had ruled from Kabul for forty years, had been overthrown in a bloodless coup. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “No, but—” “The courtyard alone can fit forty thousand people.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I feel like I'm standing on the top of a bell tower, staring at the ground forty fathoms below. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When I finished, the game’s credit counter jumped from zero up to forty. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Her bedroom fills with pebbles, seaglass, shells: forty scallops along the windowsill, sixty-one whelks along the top of the armoire. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He says that forty years ago the French had a colony at Fort Caroline in Florida. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z "You will. You found forty thousand golden dragons for a champion's purse, surely you can scrape together a few coppers to keep the king's peace." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I guessed he was forty years old, maybe fifty. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I waited thirty minutes, forty minutes, an hour. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was a woman who looked to have been around fifty or at least in her late forties. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z This system worked pretty well for almost forty years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I came to this country forty years ago,” he said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z For the first time since it happened forty years ago, I feel okay about it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z There were several calls for young men between twenty-five and forty with automobiles to sell various products on commission. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Now he crept along the wall looking at a man who was as tall as he was—and forty years younger. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mark of Athena blazed to life at the bottom of the cavern, revealing glistening brickwork along a subterranean canal forty feet below. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For forty years the land was happy and undisturbed. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z That they shall pay a fine of forty shillings each, and that they be forbidden hereafter, on certainty of thirty lashes at the whipping post, to enter the boundaries of the township of Wethersfield. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “That makes forty peregrines for the month,” said a woman sitting on a camp stool. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Plumes of fire thirty and forty feet high danced upon the waters, crackling and hissing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He thought of a man whom he had passed in the street a few weeks back: a quite ordinary-looking man, a Party member, aged thirty-five or forty, tallish and thin, carrying a brief case. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In forty minutes, the hallways will fill with kids. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It is not politically correct but true that I had seen and heard of single coyotes or wolves killing forty sheep in one night without eating any of them. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And then, turning into the wind, suddenly they would all be in the air together, fourteen or forty at a time, with wide wings scooping the blackness and a cry of triumph in their throats. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “By river it’s forty miles or so. Could take more than two days depending on if you’re on a barge or a billow- boat, and what the weather’s like.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z About forty more boxes followed, one after another. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z For forty years New Brown, located in the Red Hook Housing Projects, one of the largest and most neglected housing projects in New York City, has stood strong. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesse didn’t have to imagine this fate: Such people were all around him, ticked-off employees in their late thirties and forties, lots of them pleasant and adequately compensated, but few of them happy or stimulated. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Manhattan, where it would reach 106 degrees, forty people would die. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Then, in mourning for your father, Hassan wore black for the next forty days. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The airlock flew forty meters before hitting the ground. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "A rematch I won't give him, even after forty years. A tough one, remember that night..." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom, dressed in a cool denim suit and, surprisingly, a pair of late-style Nikes, loads our bags in the car, and we’re totally ready to go by eight forty- five. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Anybody who has seen two episodes of The Shield knows that if a perp isn’t identified in the first forty- eight hours, the likelihood of nailing him is cut in half. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It now stretched out for another good ways, maybe forty rods or so. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Every day they bestowed upon the statue of Bel twelve bushels of flour, forty sheep, and fifty gallons of wine.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All right, there’s the Cornucopia, the shining gold metal horn, about forty yards away. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z If he said he would be somewhere at eight thirteen and forty seconds, that’s what time he would arrive. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He’d gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So different from the way she remembered them forty years ago. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There's a guy there at the window, a man in a tweed jacket, about forty years old with a big head of wild hair. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernie became the first of our people to graduate from Central High School in all its forty- nine years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A man in his early forties, tall like nearly everyone on the boat ramp, he wore horn-rimmed spectacles behind which lurked sharp, penetrating eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I had expected a withered corpse, but Mr. Crumbley looked perfectly intact and surprisingly young, perhaps only forty or fifty years old, his black hair graying just around the temples. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Somehow, I didn’t think it was overly strange for Julia Bishop to have a boyfriend who was probably in his forties, even if it was really creepy. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Along with yams, sugarcane, and potatoes, we grew cotton on forty acres. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z About forty or fifty people had died from it, and he’d been one of them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Who would have thought that, almost forty years later, I’d still be dealing with the fallout from that September day? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “What a pity we haven’t got about thirty or forty extra-long ladders that we could tie together to reach the roof,” muttered Constance. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Up to forty people could share a single water tap. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor recounted the story of forty slaves, shackled together on a ship, who jumped overboard en masse rather than live in bondage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The weather made it impossible to get a sun sight, but Worsley’s best guess put Clarence and Elephant isles about thirty or forty miles north. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z General Tweedy had taken his last ride in it nearly forty years before, to the Hebron graveyard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And forty years ago Fairfield was farm country with a county cemetery too tiny for anybody to care whether its dead were white or black. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z By noon, they had drained somewhere between thirty and forty cars. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He could only think of Judgment Day, of Noah and forty days of rain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Do you understand? Which is better, that forty thousand of us remain, or that the whole population perish? We must choose!” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Where the other forty thousand had made their camp, only the wind and dust lived now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After the War, Cudn Vanna married three more husbands and lived to bury them all, even the one that was forty years younger than she was. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z We each had an aguardiente and paid forty centimes for the two drinks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z It was about thirty inches high, forty inches long. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Miss Trixie here earns only forty dollars a week, and she does have some seniority.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was about forty, thin, fair haired. He drove a BMW.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He said they had lost forty thousand on the Carso besides. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A few days later, Mother drove me forty miles to a small shop whose shelves were lined with exotic shoes and strange acrylic costumes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In a given year, some forty million Americans swap intimate truths about themselves with complete strangers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Austin, who had spent forty years publishing a paper with the motto “The Truth Unbridled,” advised Fuller not to pull his punches. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Not the kind of baby hair her grandmother had soaped and played with and remembered for forty years. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I had about forty shoe boxes stacked in a corner, and he knocked all of them over. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z When I finally do get home, after forty minutes of trudging, my bicycle is waiting for me outside my building, and so is Ollie. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He carried Hank forty yards and shoved him into a ditch before the mortar shell got him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Those forty oars carried the ship over a hundred and fifty miles of wintry sea before sunset of the second day out from Serd. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “My dæmon tells me the ground is forty feet down.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Two bodies were removed, but “the other lay in a state of putrefaction for above forty eight hours.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He was an older man, past forty and balding, but still strong and fit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And then the next thing I knew, forty minutes had passed and the trailer door opened and Dell Duke appeared with Quang-ha at his side. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Eighteen hours in a car can age a kid forty years. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,” she answered. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “Still,” he said, “Ariel could put a girdle round the earth in forty minutes.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in her early forties then, and there was nohody to look out for her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Must be over forty families spread in these hills calling themselves Solomon something or other. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they loaded him and about forty of the others into one of the cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Of course, that was forty years ago, and such foolishness would be unthinkable in these more enlightened times. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Except for the forty dollars she didn’t want to spend, she was almost out of money. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I drove with tire Discovery Times crew out to the Infosys campus, about forty minutes from the heart of Bangalore, to tour the facility and interview Nilekani. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z “Zu, what are you still doing in bed? I woke you up forty minutes ago!” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His pulse rises to sixty-four at five forty A.M. and hovers at sixty just a few moments later. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In 1994, 25 percent of all Haitians who lived there died before they reached the age of forty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But it was only my mother cooking, in the ways and places she used to cook, in the late forties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was past forty, more handsome than pretty, but still easy on the eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “That’s what I asked him. And it turns out that a dog’s blood-sugar level is supposed to be between forty and one hundred. You know what Jordan’s is?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He’d built his own house, hauling river stone, milling lumber, a man prominently and wondrously strong far into his forties. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On one block of narrow Appletree Alley he counted forty dead. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But twenty-five years later, about forty miles up the road in Odessa at Permian, there was some consolation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z C Average Middle School had three lunch periods of forty minutes each. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The best years of her life, from age twenty to forty, had been celibate, and aside from the consummation that began his own life, the rest of her life had been the same. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sis! I’ve been out here forty minutes and I’m half stewed.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I multiply my own pain once, twice, forty times and can only hope that Gale remains unconscious. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m back. I stayed on the Spillkill three nights practicing with the sling and grieving for Frightful. I got one squirrel, which I brought home to eat. I missed forty times. Not good.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A cab skids past me, spraying an additional forty gallons of puddle water onto my pants—the only things, so far, that had remained relatively dry. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “You lived this way for forty years! You kept on long after all the other communities and communes shut down and disappeared! Why stop now?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The soap is insanely expensive, and everybody over the age of forty simply has to have it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In the first forty days a boy had been with him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to the housing office at MIT and found a furnished apartment a few blocks away, with a double bed and a private kitchen and bath, for forty dollars a week. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As it was, he sparked fights with the jailers and eventually was transferred to the East Japan Immigration Detention Center in Ushiku, forty miles northeast of Tokyo. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There were about forty of them, each one depending in size on the need of the receiver. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Your grandfather was up until forty minutes ago. He had a long night.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Early in his career, for example, Paul Ekman filmed forty psychiatric patients, including a woman named Mary, a forty-two-year-old housewife. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “He kept this ax up here for forty years. And he made sure I knew about it.” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z He laughed and resumed his eating, a meal he had started forty minutes earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one leaving in forty minutes, at Terminal 2. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He was eventually freed from slavery at the age of forty, only to be committed later to an asylum for dementia. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He was in his early forties when the company transferred our family to North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Hopping from refuge to refuge, paleo-Indians could have made their way down the coast at any time in the last forty thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He presented the last case of Orich—probably thirty or forty bars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z His face was crimped in an of-course-I-remember look as he searched for page forty. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z More than forty rescue missions were sent from England, at least ten of them financed by Lady Franklin, the leader’s widow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z When everything was ready, the plan included forty different surgical procedures. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z If you wanted to see with your naked eye a paramecium swimming in a drop of water, you would have to enlarge the drop until it was some forty feet across. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At the age of forty- one he started attending Fordham full-time for his law and business degrees. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The door was opened by a pleasant-featured woman of forty or so who looked North African. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z "Forty rooms with forty shelves and forty bulbs." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But on this morning the temperature was held in check by a biting wind that gusted down from the upper mountain, creating a windchill that dipped to perhaps forty below zero. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He’s six feet tall, about forty, a diagonal scar across his cheek; he sits typing, his hands too big for the keyboard, still wearing his pistol in the shoulder holster. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, it would take our Mars astronauts forty minutes to ask for, and receive, any advice from earth. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We had seen videotape of this at lineup: thirty or forty seconds of inmates massing, running and stabbing, attacking and fleeing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Footsteps, dainty and thin, came along the hall, and a kind-faced lady of some forty years, dressed in a sort of dress you might expect in the year 1909, peered out at them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The snow got thicker and thicker, and forty- five minutes outside of Eastham, we turned around. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z What could be dysfunctional about a mother so spiteful that she intentionally undercooks her husband’s chicken, and a father so narcissistic he gets a face-lift at forty? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was hard; rain or no rain, it would still only be in the high forties, if we were lucky. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I knew that I could not possibly answer all the letters—there were over forty—and I had to select a dozen or so to write to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Approximately forty million were in North America and Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Well, when she gets back, you tell her I called. Hilly Holbrook, Emerson three sixty-eight forty?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z From what he understands, the plant, which only has about forty on-site workers at any given time, has become a refuge for Applied Energy Services, and Southern California Edison employees. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “There are at least what, forty, fifty letters here?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “In the old days a hundred throats were cut every Saturday night, and money was as rare as a rattlesnake higher than eight thousand feet, and everybody dropped dead from TB before they were forty.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, it was the only important body of water within forty miles, a source of pride, nice to look at on bright summer days, and later that evening it would color up with fireworks. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle began a chant that the Tang men had used nearly forty years ago when they were building the paths for the demons’ trains. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The sides of the stream were clear for twenty to forty meters on both sides. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, as it approaches the earth, a spacecraft returning from the moon must be within a very narrow zone about forty miles high. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty or forty feet from the last palm tree, I began to dig a grave for Timothy. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Watney simply slept at night on Mars, while Mindy had to drift forty minutes forward every day, taping aluminum foil to her windows to get any sleep at all. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was forty years since Copernicus had published On the Revolutions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The slob was pigging out on Big Macs and fries for forty miles.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The authors write as if everyone knows what the “rabbit illusion” is, but I’ve been in this business for nearly forty years and had never heard of it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “It takes a long time to save forty dollars,” he said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His father taught psychology at the University of Chicago; his mother ran an afterschool program for forty years, without pay, in a poor neighborhood. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The body of the sugar basin was quickly completed and he began repousseing on it the rich garlands of fruit with the same skill he had had forty years before. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yet should a crop fail or a war be lost, we cut his throat to appease the gods and choose a new prince from amongst the forty families.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But if you were tied at forty, it was called deuce. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Stealing was always a problem,” Charles Robert Jenkins wrote in his 2008 memoir about forty years of living inside the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z MGF Oil Corporation also announced that it was entering into a venture to build a forty- story-plus world-class luxury hotel to be designed by I. M. Pei. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z California made a move, starting to sprint, going up to forty strokes per minute and charging forward again, back into the lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z About forty feet away, however, I found a dried one in the crotch of a tree, stuck there by a squirrel and forgotten. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Galton’s talk might not have generated the effusive endorsement that he had expected—he later groused that his audience was “living forty years ago”—but he had obviously touched a raw nerve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z We need to leave at six forty a.m. to get there in time and get a spot right by the door so we’re first in line okay? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in his forties and had talked about modernizing law enforcement in the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The whole birthing center felt tropically humid, even though it was forty degrees outside. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At twelve forty on April 8, Shackleton gave the order: “Launch the boats.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Later that day, toward midnight in fact, Will was walking out of the city of Oxford, forty miles away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave government positions to forty family members including his wife, Elena, who required forty homes and a commensurate supply of fur and jewels. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z |
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