forty-five
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He describes “Pepperpot City” as “an impressionistic journey . . . condensing my more than forty-five years of exploring Philadelphia’s encyclopedic culinary history.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
For forty-five minutes he took questions from Russian journalists and came across as combative, confident of victory and energised.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
And Hentoff got The New Yorker to devote a whole forty-five pages of print to Marie, and later Hentoff expanded those pages into a full biography.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
We'd have to wait for the top of the hour, a full forty-five minutes away, to learn anything more.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
“I could do these problems in my sleep, and I studied them forty-five years ago. There are so many careless mistakes! He’s not even trying, is he?”
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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