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forty English
Meaning forty meaning
What does forty mean?
Definitions in simple English
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Synonyms forty synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as forty?
Topics forty topics
What do people use forty to talk about?
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multiples of ten
Examples forty examples
How do I use forty in a sentence?
Simple sentences
It has taken forty-six years to build this temple.
My father will be forty-five in May.
I am forty-five years old.
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, hundred.
Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, one hundred.
I bought forty dollars' worth of gasoline today.
They haven't slept for forty-eight hours already.
We have forty-four guests.
I think she's over forty.
Tom used to smoke up to forty cigarettes a day but last summer he quit smoking completely.
The meeting didn't start until four fifteen, and didn't end until five forty-five.
I'm turning forty this month.
She is probably over forty.
Tom usually goes to bed at ten-forty.
The king reigned over his people for forty years.
Mr Smith founded this school forty years ago.
This book contains forty photographs.
Professor Kay has been studying insects for forty years.
Forty years passed.
It was not until he was forty that he began to study German.
He must be nearly forty.
At forty, he does not get as angry as he used to.
It is forty years since I began studying Japanese.
We are forty three in all.
We have enjoyed peace for more than forty years.
The bus can carry a maximum of forty people.
There are forty-one teachers and about eight hundred students in this school.
This class consists of forty pupils.
Movie subtitles
Forty, if you say, then agreed.
Forty-four, forty-six pounds.
Forty dinars.
Forty dinars, you say?
Forty.
Forty-five.
Forty-eight.
It's a forty foot dive into a tub of water, but I think you can do it.
Coming to think of it, forty winks wouldnt be bad.
Just think, I'm illiterate, don't know any letters, just the numbers. But I got a big business. Forty-three men working for me.
You can't feed even one man, and I'm feeding forty.
Two daughters out of five, that represents - forty percent of the noise.
One, two, three, four, five twenty, forty, sixty, eighty.
I'll make it a hundred and forty.
Forty-eight men are there, Calamity!
Oh, you say it made Paris in one hour and forty minutes?
Forty-nine, fifty.
Coming to think of it, forty winks wouldn't be bad.
Forty bucks and keep the tip.
Forty thousand. Shall we start with forty?
Forty years from now I'll love you more then I do now.
Forty-five years.
Forty-six in October.
Forty-five years, and most of the time carrying other people's burdens.
Forty-three. That must have been awful!
Forty-two.
Forty-four lions, a zebra, two ostriches and, uh.
Forty-two more days and I'll have finished my five years.
Forty miles.
Three hundred and forty?
Yes, and I have forty lads ready to scatter them over the county.
One, two, three, twenty, forty, sixty. Here. Give me a 10.
Well, at least, after forty-five years, I've seen New York.
Forty-eight hours' leave.
Forty cannons facing the woods!
News and current affairs
He managed to stay at the helm for over forty years with no serious challengers.
I have known Blix for over forty years.
PRINCETON - Forty years ago, I stood with a few other students in a busy Oxford street handing out leaflets protesting the use of battery cages to hold hens.
The ties that bind us together were frayed by forty years of Soviet domination, but this did not fundamentally change these states' European character.
Forty years ago, South Korea had a comparative advantage in growing rice.
In forty years, a demographic implosion within China, the consequence of its one-child policy, will make European and Japanese concerns about aging populations look trivial.
These decisions have had devastating consequences for forty years.
Forty-one years later, Israel is still incapable of extricating itself from the corrupting occupation of Palestinian lands, and from the folly of settlements.
John Paul II had a specific task that he implemented during his nearly 27-year papacy: following through on the changes in the teaching and behavior of the Catholic Church that were started by the Second Vatican Council over forty years ago.
LOS ANGELES - Forty years ago this month, more than 50 nations gathered in the East Room of the White House to sign the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Forty years ago, Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after a lightning six-day war that repelled the armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
The world's output grew by a factor of forty, water use by nine, energy use by thirteen, and the emission of carbon dioxide by seventeen.
Europeans spent the previous forty years slaughtering each other on a scale unprecedented in human history.
Forty-five minutes later, he was dead.
Forty-four Huji members were arrested, two of whom claimed to have been sent from South Africa and Pakistan by Osama Bin Laden to distribute money to the extremist madrassas.
PRAGUE - Perhaps it is the experience of a man who endured forty years of Communist rule, and the Nazi Occupation before that.
Forty years ago, the US opening to Mao's China shocked Japan and all of Asia.
Forty years ago, a great American statesman, Dean Acheson, looked back at the excitement he felt in helping to build the post-World War II order.
Forty industrial and financial leaders (most of whom manage Kremlin-affiliated firms) attended the event to gain - and give - reassurance that, together, they and the government would weather the crisis.
Forty-one percent of the world's population live in areas where malaria is transmitted, with 350-500 million cases each year.
VIENNA - Forty years ago, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe concluded with the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, a historic triumph of cooperation over conflict that set the stage for the end of the Cold War.
Forty years later, those words on March 22, 1968, by Jean Baudrillard - then an assistant professor at Nanterre University - still sound right.