Cleopatra was one of the triumphs of her four-decade career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nothing Like The Dame] Reference

They call it hypocritical in the face of a four-decade economic blockade.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2004] Reference

Annette Bongiorno Ms. Bongiorno was a four-decade veteran of the Madoff firm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prosecutors Keep Hunting for Aiders and Abettors] Reference

This year's vote was 179 to 4 against the four-decade old policy, with only the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The inauguration one day after Mr. Musharraf ended a four-decade military career.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2007] Reference

Veloso's four-decade silver-throated career includes dozens of albums and five Latin Grammys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-Seven] Reference

Raheja, whose mother is a Seneca, wrote the letter upon hearing of a four-decade district tradition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pontiac's Revenge] Reference

The EFCA would make union-organizing campaigns easier and reverse labor's four-decade membership decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pro-Business Group Sinks Over A Million Dollars Into Ad Linking Blago To Senate Dems And "Union Bosses"] Reference

Thirty percent have no life-insurance coverage of any kind, a four-decade high, according to a Limra survey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shift to Wealthier Clientele Puts Life Insurers in a Bind] Reference

The house voted yesterday to end its four-decade practice of subsidizing private lenders to make student loans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Creamer: Time to Just Say No to Giant Corporate "Parasites" -- and Recognize Them for What They Are] Reference

If you were born before that, you're part of a generation enjoying a four-decade run of historic income growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incomes of young in 8-year nose dive] Reference

He says the carrier has a safety record during its four-decade history better than Indonesia's national carrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former Pilot at Helm of Mandala] Reference

Israel withdrew its soldiers and settlements from Gaza in 2005 after a nearly four-decade presence in the strip.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. urged Israel to use caution and restraint with aid boats heading to Gaza] Reference

For the eagles and the people trying to save them, it has been a four-decade struggle and it may not be the last.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2007] Reference

Last year, the Supreme Court ruled the state's four-decade long telecommunications monopoly was unconstitutional.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

On Tuesday she died of leukemia in Manhattan, cutting short a four-decade career that's still very much in motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2004] Reference

That is the largest drop in the four-decade history of the survey and likely the sharpest decline since the Depression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recession, Tight Credit Compound Housing Woes] Reference

Consumer prices are dropping, commercial land values are at four-decade lows, and industrial output has just headed south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Japan Default?] Reference

Borrowing has never been cheaper, with Freddie Mac's 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hitting a roughly four-decade low of 4.69%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overheard: Time to Pass] Reference

Federal offshore Gulf of Mexico has been our last great hope for domestic oil production against a four-decade declining trend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Nelder: 195 Californias or 74 Texases to Replace Offshore Oil] Reference

His success or failure may be among the most important legacies he leaves the company near the end of a four-decade career there.    From Wordnik.com.  [J] Reference

ANDERSON: The 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap" among the movies in our four-decade long career in television and on the big screen.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2009] Reference

The covenant between guitarist Jeff Beck and his audience is the same as it's been for most of his four-decade professional career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eloquent Guitar, Quiet Man] Reference

He returned to fiction only after the four-decade dictatorship created by Antonio Salazar was toppled by a military uprising in 1974.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jose Saramago Dead: Nobel Prize Winning Portuguese Novelist Dies At 87] Reference

I feel like a fool here at the very beginning of my own marriage, barely 2 ½ years in, trying to analyze the Gores's four-decade union.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michele Langevine Leiby: The Tipping Point: What Part of Tipper Gore Didn't We See?] Reference

Al-Asiri and his brother abruptly left their Mecca home three years ago, said their father, a four-decade veteran of the Saudi military.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, Yemen Bombmaker, Key Suspect In Terror Plot] Reference

Guitar-heavy grooves have helped Aerosmith pack concert halls and sell more than 150 million albums during its nearly four-decade career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aerosmith Stars in Guitar Hero Videogame] Reference

Mr. Rizzuto, who also had a four-decade career as the team's broadcaster, died in 2007 in West Orange, N.Y. Pictured: Mr. Rizzuto in 1950.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yankees for the Ages] Reference

This is the first time the entire Sinatra-Jobim album has been released in its original running order, and it's worth the four-decade wait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Sachs: Forty Years On, Frank Sinatra's Great Lost Album Finally Surfaces] Reference

But that's not unusual, because over her four-decade long career, she's been winning fans over in just about every genre from disco to soul to jazz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chaka Khan Lives the 'Super Life'] Reference

His statements had rekindled the possibility of a negotiated solution to Colombia's four-decade conflict, especially given the FARC's weakened condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Car Bombing in Bogota Targets Business District] Reference

As one of the thousands of obscure subcontractors who supply Japan's famous corporate giants, Sanritsu has played its part in a four-decade economic miracle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End Of The Miracle Era] Reference

Finally, McDowell's reference to a "four-decade bipartisan and international consensus to insulate computer-oriented communications from phone regulation" is hogwash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marvin Ammori: Questions for Robert McDowell, Heir to Ted Stevens, on His International Legal Expertise] Reference

In late October 2008, New Yorker staff writer George Packer reported "the complete collapse of the four-decade project that brought conservatism to power in America.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Conservatism Was Greatly Exaggerated] Reference