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• “Mr. Brewer of the Crown inn, Nothingham, undertook for a wager of forty guineas to go with a mare belonging to him in a cart, to Newark and back again, being a distance of _forty miles, in four hours_.”

  The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1

• “Early Park, in the parish of B Bird, had been his residence since he first came to the title forty years ago, and had been the scene of all his labours.”

  The Prime Minister

• “Early Park, in the parish of Bird, had been his residence since he first came to the title forty years ago, and had been the scene of all his labours.”

  The Prime Minister

• “The "old Earl" was his grandfather, Edward Stanley, who had held the title forty-two years, and died in 1776, at the age of eighty-seven.”

  Charlotte Temple, a tale of truth; reprinted from the rare first American edition (1794), over twelve hundred errors in later editions being corected, and the preface restored; with an historical and biographical introduction, bibliography, etc., by Francis W. Halsey.

• “This short book is arranged in forty second-person point-of-view chapters, each one a new thought experiment on what the afterlife might be like.”

  REVIEW: Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

• “Last year was The New Complete Works of Josephus, which I'm glad I read, though I don't think anyone else joined us for that one, since reading all of that in forty days is simply impossible for anyone with, you know, a life.”

  Get Ready for the 2009 Lenten Read-a-Thon!

• “Nobody disputes the fact that the tax base of the USA in forty years 'time will be large enough to pay for retirement benefits.”

  IRA's to the Rescue?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “When the Senate rejected him 55 – 45, it was the first such instance in forty years.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Lithwick’s Lament

• “Once in forty-seven years someone actually holds the guy to account, and he fails miserably.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » House Democratic Leaders Drop “Deem and Pass”

• “We set out to raise eight thousand dollars to do a small publicity campaign for the record, so we set a forty-five day goal, to raise our eight thousand dollars, and to be perfectly honest, I was really nervous that we weren't going to raise the eight thousand dollars in forty-five days.”

  The Huffington Post: Mike Ragogna: Triple Threat Friday : Conversations with BoDeans, Bleu and The Chapin Sisters

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