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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

They walked in the bright, circling stream, a little flushed and sated, till Winifred sighed: "I wish we were back forty years, old boy!"

From To Let by Galsworthy, John

By a direct process of memory I go back forty years, less one month—for I'm older than I look.

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Twain, Mark