back forty

Example Sentences

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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

This sign, however, once passed, it seemed to you that you were taken back forty years, and to the other end of Paris.

From Jack 1877 by Sherwood, Mary Neal

I can go back forty years, close to my beginning.

From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)