forty
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- /ˈfɔrti/
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cuarenta
- Some spend more than forty hours in a typical week on these activities!
- forty-five
- forty minutes
- forty-seven
And there are multiple modules where you can't watch that and not be like, well, we've broken forty of these rules at different times.
- And there are multiple modules where you can't watch that and not be like, well, we've broken forty of these rules at different times.
- The Intel chip needed forty more watts of power and the winds of Warius just to match AMD in performance.
- And in those forty years since then, I've never met anyone who had that kind of advanced and very intuitive mental notion of how nature works.
- So therefore X in this case is going to equal anyway anybody's forty.
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Forty years ago, I was honored to direct a film called This is Spinal Tap.
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By the time you were forty, you don't want change, you want stability.
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Yet it is also reported that just forty of these have faced any charges and yet the others remain at liberty.
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Soldiers do not need forty-five minutes to hit a sitting target at close range.
Academic text (2011) -
If you want to catch the train to Cleveland you've got just forty minutes.
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In forty years
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All forty of us!
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And in those forty years since then, I've never met anyone who had that kind of advanced and very intuitive mental notion of how nature works.
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Ben II's father, Benjamin Manning I, spent his last forty years around Cashie's Neck.
Academic text (2011) -
The concert will start in just forty minutes, so we should hurry.
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Forty comes from the old way of joining four and -ty, where -ty means 'ten' or 'a group of ten', so it literally means 'four tens'.