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Elayne Boosler once joked that her ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

A band of rebels attacked the village and killed over forty people.

A Chinese proverb tells us that women are as beautiful as flowers when they are forty years old.

Over forty people have lost their homes following a blaze which destroyed an entire apartment building.

The United States has maintained an economic blockade of Cuba for almost forty years.

Greyhounds are the fastest breed of dog in the world, and can reach speeds up to forty miles an hour.

The Rolling Stones have succeeded in outliving, outlasting, and outperforming their contemporaries for the last forty years.

The Coast Guard has rescued forty sailors from a crippled freighter off the coast of Newfoundland.

The crossing to the mainland takes an hour and forty minutes by ferry.

Minus forty degrees Celsius is almost exactly the same as minus forty degrees Fahrenheit.

It has been suggested that up to forty percent of all stress can be attributed to poor diet.

Rudyard Kipling once noted that we have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

William Wordsworth wrote, "The cattle are grazing, their heads never raising, there are forty feeding like one! " Billions of dollars have been spent on cancer research in the last forty years, yet the incidence of cancer continues to increase.

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