forty

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That changed when an international team returned to the site using modern technology unavailable to scientists forty years earlier.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

In our town, we’re told in the new LA28 announcement of the Cultural Olympiad: “It’s been forty years. Los Angeles is ready to do it again.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

"They took away valuables -- my radio, my phone, and forty head of livestock" from the village, he said, not daring to name those responsible.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

There was no reason I couldn’t close the laptop for forty minutes.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026

They settle down on top of my booties in the bootie sack and that night it gets forty or fifty below and the cans of soda freeze and burst.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen