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A bottle of beer containing forty fluid ounces.

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The cardinal number occurring after thirty-nine and before forty-one.

The bones are probably forty years old.

They were both now forty years old.

No, I haven't seen it, but I won't be driving the forty miles every day, either.

No one found the remains for forty years!

It is said that he could speak and write forty languages.

Cindy, that's forty miles out in the middle of nowhere.

We still have more tests we could run but up to twenty four to forty eight hours; I'm pretty close on both time and location.

Forty years old and having a baby!

The woman, a buxom blonde about forty, Dean guessed, was clothed in a fashion magazine outfit, designed for après snow bunny activity, not actually doing anything in the great outdoors.

There are forty of them!

Here's your cut-- two thousand and forty three dollars, Kevin said, and counted out the money on the desk.

They'd been in the mine for forty years.

He looked closer to forty than thirty.

The exnawab of Kurnool was confined in it for forty years for the murder of his wife.

After having spent forty years in a cave at the foot of mount Sinai, he became abbot of the monastery.

But the average produce over forty years of continuous growth of barley was, in all cases where nitrogenous and mineral manures (containing phosphates) were used together, much higher than the average produce of the crop grown in ordinary rotation in the United Kingdom, and very much higher than the average in most other countries when so grown.

Important as it was for thirty or forty years, it will soon be as little read as M'Culloch's Principles.

Lack of central control over the virtually independent communes (over forty thousand in number) led to a sharp rebound under the Convention, when all matters of importance were disposed of by commissioners appointed by that body.

Two hundred and forty years after the appearing of the false Messiah there came to the world sixty thousand saints out of Pharaoh's world to take the place of the Mandaeans, who had been completely extirpated; their high priest had his residence in Damascus.

The chief merit of the latter work lies in its forty plates, whereon the heads and feet of many birds are indifferently figured .2 But, while the successive editions of Linnaeus's great work were revolutionizing natural history, and his example of precision in language producing excellent effect on scientific writers, several other authors were advancing the study of ornithology in a very different way - a way that pleased the eye even more than his labours were pleasing the mind.

Hayes's Natural History of British Birds, a folio with forty plates, appeared between 1771 and 1775, but was of no scientific value.

A Monograph of the Odontophorinae or Partridges of America (1850); The Birds of Asia, in seven volumes, the last completed by Mr Sharpe (1850-1883); The Birds of Great Britain, in five volumes (1863-1873); and The Birds of New Guinea, begun in 1875, and, after the author's death in 1881, undertaken by Mr Sharpe, make up the wonderful tale consisting of more than forty folio volumes, and containing more than three thousand coloured plates.

Forty members were elected in each of the six divisions of the city, giving a body of 480 members, who served for one year and on retiring named two deputies for each sestiere to nominate the council for the succeeding year.

By the close of 1850 the railway mileage had increased to 575 m., and for the next forty years, with the exception of the Civil War period, more than 2000 m.

With the end of the Persian Wars, the original object of ostracism was removed, but it continued in use for forty years and was revived in 417 B.C. It now became a mere party weapon and the farcical result of its use in 417 in the case of Hyperbolus led to its abolition either at once, or, as Lugebil seeks to prove, in the archonship of Euclides (403 B.C.).

The subway was built by the city, but leased and operated by a private company on such terms as to repay its cost in forty years.

Forty different kinds of cloth were formerly manufactured in this district, the bulk of which during many years was made from English twist, country thread being used only for the finest muslins.

The waters of the lake swarm with fish (sturgeons and salmonidae), and its herring (Salmo omul) is the chief product of the fisheries, though notably fewer have been taken within the last forty or fifty years.

In spite of the clean culture, good crops of cotton have been grown on some soils in the south for more than forty successive years.

This question can readily be answered as regards the past forty years or so, for which material g p y y ?

The sole piece of evidence, from which probable conclusions may be drawn, is that three separate measurements of price fluctuations over some forty years reveal a growing unsteadiness of late, whether they be expressed absolutely or as percentages of price.

Other houses of the Brothers of Common Life, otherwise called the "Modern Devotion," were in rapid succession established in the chief cities of the Low Countries and north and central Germany, so that there were in all upwards of forty houses of men; while those of women doubled that figure, the first having been founded by Groot himself at Deventer.

They used an iron still, set in brickwork, and from a working charge of forty " buckets " of crude petroleum obtained a yield of sixteen buckets of " white naphtha."

The vassal was bound to pay military service, not, as in western Europe, for a limited period of forty days, but for the whole year - the Holy Land being, as it were, in a perpetual state of siege.

The forty years from 1189 to 1229 form a period of incessant crusading, occupied by Crusades of every kind.

Here, with the burden of the day now past, the fine old crusader - he had joined before in the Second Crusade, forty years ago - perished by accident in the river; and of all his fine army only a thousand men won their way through, under his son, Frederick of Swabia, to join the ranks before Acre (October 1190).

Here there reigned, during the forty years of the loss of Jerusalem, an almost unbroken peace.

Forty years of struggle ended in fifteen years' possession of Jerusalem.

The Christians were, however, able to maintain a footing in Syria for forty years after St Louis' departure, not by reason of their own strength, but owing to two powers which checked the advance of the Mamelukes.

To the Theological Seminary, opened in 1835, there came in the same year forty students from Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, after the discussion of slavery there had been forbidden by its board of trustees.

For more than forty years every moment that he could spare from his extensive practice was devoted to this end.

The unsettled political condition of Spain during the next forty years was reflected in the disturbed political conditions of Porto Rico and Cuba.

It is less than 40km from one end to the other and could be driven flat-out in under forty five minutes.

Unfortunately the crown was also issued again after a break of forty years, and the new double florin proved unpopular.

Man's been dead ten years now and Rebecca's turned forty still muttering something about eating her carrots and being strong.

He was hanged on the 13th August 1872 at Maidstone aged forty two.

It's good to have them back, tho if this makes the top forty it will be doing well.

A site that has forty or more links will only hurt you.

You're saying you're taking forty along, how did you whittle it down?

The things appeared to be at least forty thousand feet in the air - perhaps much higher.