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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

My memory goes back forty years to Russia, when I was on a bear-shooting expedition with Sir Robert Kennedy.

From Here, There and Everywhere by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord

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)