Forty-five hoods were thrown back from the parkas. Forty-five pairs of hands unmittened, and forty-five pairs of moccasins pressed tensely into the packed snow. Also, forty-five stakes were thrust into the snow, and the same number of mallets lifted in the air.英文原著 · 《Smoke Bellew》
Forty years ago that young thing's grandmother had given him his last. It made him out a very old chap! Forty years ago! Had that been himself living then? And himself, who, as a youth came on the town in 'forty-five? Not a thought, not a feeling the same! They said you changed your body every seven years. The mind with it, too, perhaps!英文原著 · 《Five Tales》
Almost coincidently, Swan, an Englishman, who had also been wrestling with this problem, came to the same conclusion. Finally, one day in October, 1879, after fourteen months of hard work and the expenditure of forty thousand dollars, a carbonized cotton thread sealed in one of Edison's globes lasted forty hours. "If it will burn forty hours now," said Edison, "I know I can make it burn a hundred." And so he did. A better filament was needed. Edison found it in carbonized strips of bamboo.英文原著 · 《The Age of Invention》
Afterward, when they had stopped for a moment to allow Tip to rest, they saw forty roads branching off from their feet in forty different directions; and soon these forty roads began whirling around like a mighty wheel, first in one direction and then in the other, completely bewildering their vision.英文原著 · 《The Marvelous Land of Oz》
Suppose that the man that had, forty years ago, forty pounds of his own, and had spent it all since, should yet be able now to shew his forty pounds again; what has he got thereby, or how much richer is he at last than he was when he first set up for himself? Nay, doth not the blot of his ill living betwixt his first and his last, lie as a blemish upon him, unless he should redeem himself also, by works of supererogation, from the scandal that justice may lay at his door for that.英文原著 · 《The Pharisee And The Publican》
Forty million bushels, forty million, forty million."英文原著 · 《The Pit》
Forty-nine low. Stop me out at forty-eight and a half.美剧 · 《Billions》
Forty-five minutes, and I rebound like an undergrad.美剧 · 《Billions》
I mean, I'm sure you're aware of the forty-million-dollar elbow. when Steve Wynn was selling it to Steve Cohen and accidentally poked a new nostril in Picasso's "Le Reve." Yeah. Well aware.美剧 · 《Billions》
Forty percent of people experience clinically measurable depression. Forty percent of people experience clinically measurable depression.演讲 · 《How to fix a broken heart ~ Guy Winch》