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So, you’re not saying he was a special agent going back forty years?

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2019

And, here, it’s instructive again to go back forty years.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 11, 2019

“Main man, you’re my support,” it begins, “your two strong legs, your back forty years against a brick wall.”

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2012

My memory goes back forty years to Russia, when I was on a bear-shooting expedition with Sir Robert Kennedy.

From Here, There and Everywhere by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord

Tuesday night the British were in possession of La Ferte-sous-Jouarre and Chateau Thierry and the Germans had fallen back forty miles, leaving a long train of spoils behind them.

From America's War for Humanity by Russell, Thomas Herbert