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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

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

If he could have called back forty years, the responsibility would have rested on strong shoulders and a confident brain.

From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee