How to use "forty" in a sentence

Then I check the time: eight forty-five in the morning

3.28 pm It's almost forty-five minutes since my accident

I've been here for exactly forty-eight hours

But there was something the officer didn't tell them: a person has to be missing for at least forty-eight hours before the police will start a search and rescue operation

They'll wait forty-eight hours before searching

He seemed about forty years old and he was very well dressed

Polly Nichols died just a few days after her forty-third birthday

She had, the impression he was over forty and perhaps foreign.

She looked about forty, and had dark brown hair under her black bonnet

Mrs Darrell did not see his face, so her impression that he was a darklooking foreigner aged over forty is not certain.

This time they wanted forty francs because Cosette was very ill and urgently needed medicine

'If you sold me your two front teeth, I'd pay you forty francs.'

"So we need you to enter your details and then transfer two hundred and forty thousand pounds to this account

Bank manager receives two hundred and forty thousand pound salary despite bank failure." He stops and tries to turn to look at us, but Robin pulls the trigger back on the gun

"Please be seated!" says the judge, a woman of about forty years of age with a serious face and tone

"Mr Bowen, normally we need to wait forty-eight hours until we can start a missing-person investigation."

She hears the train in the dark tunnel and tells herself to wake up and to focus for another forty minutes.

The forty minutes from Liverpool Street to North Acton.

Most of them had at least forty floors above ground - these were called "sky apartments." Below ground, there were often another ten floors, for "earth apartments." The government had started building under the ground long ago, because the land inside the city was so limited.

'I'm forty-two,' he said

'He's only forty-two,' I said

The sea had carried her forty miles up the coast

With seven massive production numbers, five major variety acts, forty-two girl dancers, forty-two boy dancers, fifteen showgirls, two boy singers, two girl singers (one temperamental), forty-seven crewmen and technicians, a twenty-piece orchestra, one elephant, one lion, two black panthers, six golden retrievers, and twelve white doves, the logistics were mind-numbingly complicated, but a year of arduous labor was evident in the slick and faultless unfolding of the program.

At forty-six, he was the most successful producer in Las Vegas, with twenty years of hit shows behind him

She was tall, slender, striking, fifty-five years old but able to pass for a well-preserved forty.

He was a rugged, good-looking man, neither big nor small, about forty

And the regular service is forty percent cheaper than an emergency job."

She scanned another forty names and cringed when she saw what else the computer had printed.

The laser whispered through twenty names, forty, sixty, seventy, without producing the lines about Danny that had been on the first printout

"It's a lot, thirty or forty questions altogether, but it won't take long if you just sit down over there and cooperate."

The long wing of the diner was nearly full of customers now; about forty people were eating dinner or waiting to be served

Deep inside the secret Sierra complex, three stories below ground level, this room measured forty feet by twenty

Again and again, we're getting these thirty-and forty-degree plunges in the air temperature in there

They were in a rectangular room approximately forty feet by twenty

At any one time, we have thirty to forty projects underway."

It had been only fifteen or twenty feet above the pavement, but it rapidly climbed forty, fifty, sixty feet.

There were already around forty passengers on the boat, some of whom had spent their last money getting a ticket, but the captain stayed until five in the afternoon, picking up passengers until the boat was dangerously crowded

In the maze, they met some people who had been there for forty-five minutes

He is a charming man of about forty-five years old

However, since Madame Fosco was forty-three and Laura was twenty-one, that was unlikely