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  •      I tell Denny not to worry about it, that he's had some bad breaks, that forty's not too late to think of starting.

    Yellow Dining Room 2010

  • The other day when I went to a relative's function one woman was saying that her looks of her duty was getting affected as she was losing her hair, the other lady commented that she is in her forty's and she is married why she think of beauty?

    Beauty and youth 2007

  • Perhaps on the other hand, a man of forty's paternal instinct has been starved so long that he wants to find at once a wife and a child.

    A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928

  • You're thinking that forty's just the right age for me.

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • _ Then will I pardon it for those same forty's sake.

    "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902

  • Then will I pardon it for those same forty's sake.

    A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

  • Twenty and thirty's fifty, and twenty's seventy, and fifty's one twenty, and forty's one sixty.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • Twenty and thirty's fifty, and twenty's seventy, and fifty's one twenty, and forty's one sixty.

    Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841

  • In Switzerland, where they have prescribed to addicts since the early 1990's, the average addict age is in the lower forty's. they are aging out.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • In Switzerland, where they have prescribed to addicts since the early 1990's, the average addict age is in the lower forty's. they are aging out.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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