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A forty-day water fast made possible with constant prayer was a luxury I could not afford and also live up to the unspoken promises that guide a single parent on a 24/7 basis fifteen days a month.
Beau Friedlander: Hamburger And Humple Pie, Or, What I Did For Lent Beau Friedlander 2011
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A forty-day water fast made possible with constant prayer was a luxury I could not afford and also live up to the unspoken promises that guide a single parent on a 24/7 basis fifteen days a month.
Beau Friedlander: Hamburger And Humple Pie, Or, What I Did For Lent Beau Friedlander 2011
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Today marks the beginning of the forty-day Christian liturgical season known as Lent, a time of reflection, contemplation, and perhaps even sacrifice in preparation for the coming of the Holy Week that culminates in the celebration of Christ's Easter resurrection.
Christopher Cocca: Ash Wednesday And The Value Of Tradition Christopher Cocca 2011
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And, speaking of original meaning, the next time someone gets all hot and bothered by the use of “decimate” to mean anything other than reduction by one-tenth, ask them if they object to the use of “quarantine” to mean something other than a forty-day period.
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The numbers rose to above seventeen hundred this week, but I hear rumours through town that physicians are not even reporting the true numbers, in order to save families from the required forty-day quarantine within a plague house.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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The numbers rose to above seventeen hundred this week, but I hear rumours through town that physicians are not even reporting the true numbers, in order to save families from the required forty-day quarantine within a plague house.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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One paper in the journal Science demonstrated that a forty-day treatment targeted to kill off only the very specific defective cells that cause the autoimmune destruction of healthy beta cells in the pancreas could effectively stop type 1 diabetes in its tracks.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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One paper in the journal Science demonstrated that a forty-day treatment targeted to kill off only the very specific defective cells that cause the autoimmune destruction of healthy beta cells in the pancreas could effectively stop type 1 diabetes in its tracks.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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It was also believed to have originated as a one-day break during Lent, the forty-day period of fasting practiced by Roman Catholics.
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It was also believed to have originated as a one-day break during Lent, the forty-day period of fasting practiced by Roman Catholics.
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