Noun : His office is in the West forties. Her parents are in their forties. The temperature will be in the forties. From Dictionary.com.
A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman in Jerusalem: Summary and book reviews of A Woman in Jerusalem by A Yehoshua.] Reference
Sellers, in his late forties, is young for his rank. From Wordnik.com. [The Curse of the Sevso Silver] Reference
Cliff Joyner, in his early forties, is from North Carolina. From Wordnik.com. [The Magician] Reference
One poem, "The Moose," begun in the mid-forties, is legendary for waiting nearly thirty years to receive her seal of approval. From Wordnik.com. [Paper Trail] Reference
Italy in the forties was a seething mass of sedition. From Wordnik.com. [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference
I think Cara Seymour is in her forties, which is probably too old. From Wordnik.com. [GRRM with a brief update] Reference
Owing to the Oxford Movement, the forties were a time of marked literary activity. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Khalid and Hussein are friends from Baghdad, though Hussein in his forties is a bit older. From Wordnik.com. [Anniversary in Damascus] Reference
Your forties are a time when all your flaws seem to be laid out before you, and so is your decline. From Wordnik.com. [What's Going On] Reference
Part of the process of moving through your forties is your reaction to hearing of a death like this. From Wordnik.com. [What's Going On] Reference
The forties is the 'just right' decade - not too young, not too old, just the right amount of confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The forties were the time of canal building and rebuilding all along the lakes and the St. Lawrence to salt water. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor] Reference
Perhaps in his new conviction that the passions of the forties were the only real ones, he took too little count of the urge of youth. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Days] Reference
It said it isn't planning on selling fortified wines, hard liquor or "forties". From Wordnik.com. [Walgreen Serving Up Wine, Beer Again] Reference
These 'forties' correspond in latitude to the northern third of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men] Reference
There were books in a little hanging book-case, books of the 'forties' and. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Girl] Reference
The publications issued by Pickering in the 'forties' and 'fifties' were models of good workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books] Reference
But the provinces, even if quiet (which some of them, e.g. the Lebanon in the early 'forties', were not), proved far from content. From Wordnik.com. [The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey] Reference
One woman, in her forties, in a severe business suit. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-One] Reference
She looks like a teenager instead of a woman in her forties. From Wordnik.com. ["You Go"] Reference
I think there was a no vote in the forties at Federated last year. From Wordnik.com. [A Desperation Move for Disney?] Reference
He looked more like a football player in his forties gone to fat. From Wordnik.com. [Koo, The Queen of Nowhere] Reference
Not that many people were overjoyed when they got to their forties. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, Chapter 15] Reference
She was in her forties — her body, tight like twenty years earlier. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Married Women] Reference
She impressed me as being young, though she was well on in the untold forties. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
It was as true then as it is now, whether you're in your teens or in your forties. From Wordnik.com. [Delia Lloyd: Coping With Exes in Adulthood] Reference
Remember how we bought old suits from the forties there, with those cool skinny ties?. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend] Reference
But on Friday, you collected your pay and bought two forties of O.E. while walking home. From Wordnik.com. [Off the Map] Reference
The various issues authorized by act of Congress were known as "seven-thirties," "ten-forties,". From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
He was a shameless expert at patter and chatter: in his forties, he came to see me pitching in a sandlot game. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Matlack: James Franco, Others Discuss Favorite 'Guy Rituals'] Reference
Today, the guard is a black guy who looks in his forties or fifties but still looks like he can take care of himself. From Wordnik.com. [A Documentary About Sharks] Reference
One friend of mine has solved this problem by continuing to sleep with his ex-girlfriend of 20 years ago well into his forties. From Wordnik.com. [Delia Lloyd: Coping With Exes in Adulthood] Reference
At dinner, I talked to a Ketcham relative in his forties who almost certainly, and not incidentally, is wealthy many times over. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 53: Deceived?] Reference
Then in her late forties Rosanne's life encounters something a lawyer acquaintance of mine used to call the "parade of the horribles.". From Wordnik.com. [Ethan Russell: Music, Words & Pictures: Rosanne Cash (Part 1)] Reference
Deborah Kerr was not so unfortunate and had been nominated six times for her eclectic body of work in the forties, fifties and sixties. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Russnow: Honorary Academy Awards: Memo to Tom Sherak, the Separate Ceremony Is a Travesty!] Reference
He looked in his late forties, with this mop of jet-black hair that had been styled, but was growing out and badly in need of shampoo. From Wordnik.com. [No One Is Safe] Reference
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