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forty - use in sentences
Converse of object
- hit: Goldfrapp add a fourth top forty hit from their ' Black Cherry ' album with the title track scoring a new entry at no.28.
- turn: Man's been dead ten years now and Rebecca's turned forty still muttering something about eating her carrots and being strong.
- age: He was hanged on the 13th August 1872 at Maidstone aged forty two.
- make: It's good to have them back, tho if this makes the top forty it will be doing well.
- have: A site that has forty or more links will only hurt you.
- take: You're saying you're taking forty along, how did you whittle it down?
Adjective modifier
- least: The things appeared to be at least forty thousand feet in the air - perhaps much higher.
- top: Goldfrapp add a fourth top forty hit from their ' Black Cherry ' album with the title track scoring a new entry at no.28.
Modifies a noun
- shilling: Another Court called the County Arrest, which does the same thing for sums under forty shillings.
- percent: Forty percent of its staff has been laid off.
- wink: At the back of the class Jennifer was given a right ticking off for having forty winks.
- minute: The actress playing Mina suddenly refuses to continue, forty minutes into the film.
- year: Jesus expected the miracle to end a forty year cosmic battle, assuming him to be an Essene.
- pound: An extra five hundred and forty pounds invested for every pupil.
Preposition: per
- cent: Forty per cent of women spend over 50 hours a week caring for someone living with them 488.
Noun used with modifier
- day: And he still has his shorts from his England days forty years ago, and his shirt.
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