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So, you’re not saying he was a special agent going back forty years?
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2019
And, here, it’s instructive again to go back forty years.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 11, 2019
“Main man, you’re my support,” it begins, “your two strong legs, your back forty years against a brick wall.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2012
Those of us who can look back forty years must well remember the fancy that society took, on a sudden, to interrogate children.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)
Tuesday night the British were in possession of La Ferte-sous-Jouarre and Chateau Thierry and the Germans had fallen back forty miles, leaving a long train of spoils behind them.
From America's War for Humanity by Russell, Thomas Herbert
