• All this gets me to Amazon, where initially I performed my grunt work years ago when it ticked in the forties.

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  • All that the movie aspires to be is a speedy, bubbly screwball-comedy whodunit something like a Bob Hope vehicle from the forties.

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  • Temperatures would drop from the forties into the single digits overnight, and high winds would drive the windchill well below zero, the service advised.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Dog Days'

  • Today Forties still has another 150 million bbl left to go, and this year Apache completed a well in the Forties that came online at an impressive 12, 500 bpd.

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  • The industrial action by 1, 250 workers at the plant in April was the first at any refinery in the UK for 73 years, and also led to the closure of the Forties North Sea oil pipeline.

    BBC: Warning over petrol panic buying

  • Johnson had quickly established his eminence in the forties on 52nd Street, his sober, deliberately gloved tone partnering a rapid-fire execution that allowed him to hold his own with the trumpets and saxophones of the bebop small group.

    NPR: 'Blue Note Records, The Biography'

  • Under the savvy sponsorship of Bob Hoffman, the founder of the York Barbell Company, in Pennsylvania, the national team produced a succession of gold medalists in the forties and fifties, including Tommy Kono, John Davis, and Paul Anderson.

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  • Recapitulating the many pictures made in the forties and fifties which portrayed the Americans as good and simple people fighting for a just cause, Wallace and Gibson have taken Vietnam out of history essentially, they have assimilated it into the Second World War.

    NEWYORKER: We Were Soldiers

  • The director, Joe Dante, and his team (which includes the screenwriter Charlie Haas and the effects supervisor Rick Baker) have made a multimillion-dollar, special-effects-crammed picture that has the loose, improvisatory feel of the great Warner Brothers cartoons of the forties and fifties.

    NEWYORKER: Gremlins 2: The New Batch

  • It's still summer in Norway, which means the narrow, twisting roads along the fjords are claimed by classic American cars from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties: Buick Specials with chrome-toothed grilles and portholes, Cadillacs with jutting tail fins and Chevrolet Corvettes with massive V-8 engines.

    FORBES: Love those gas guzzlers

  • It's still summer in Norway, which means the narrow, twisting roads around the fjords are claimed by classic American cars from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties: Buick Specials with chrome-toothed grilles and chrome portholes, Cadillacs with jutting tail fins and Chevrolet Corvettes with massive V-8 engines.

    FORBES: Indulging: Love those gas guzzlers

  • During the early forties, Nazi cameramen filmed the life that was being led, and lost, inside the walls of the Warsaw ghetto.

    NEWYORKER: (director: Jolanta Dylewska; 1995)

  • In the nineteen-forties, the Communist insurgency in Vietnam bedevilled the French until, in 1951, the Viet Minh strategist Vo Nguyen Giap switched to conventional warfare and promptly suffered a series of defeats.

    NEWYORKER: How David Beats Goliath

  • The stock has been stuck in a trading range between the mid forties and sixty dollars because there are no major growth catalysts for the chain domestically.

    FORBES: Why Not to Buy Walmart Stock

  • He ran down the great wastes of the roaring forties, reaching a state of grace in a world, he felt, with no past or future.

    ECONOMIST: The hubris of racers today

  • Increasingly, sportswriters compare Jeter to the great DiMaggio, who had put up similar statistics and whose teams had clinched the same number of World Series championships at the same juncture in his career in the early Forties.

    FORBES: Top of the Lineup - Derek Jeter is must-see TV

  • By the early forties, his genius bloomed.

    NEWYORKER: Shifting Picture

  • It shuttles breezily between the present day, in which an L.A. detective named Mike Church (Branagh) is trying to discover the identity of an attractive amnesiac (Emma Thompson), and the late forties, in which a European composer and conductor (also Branagh) may or may not have murdered his pianist wife (also Thompson).

    NEWYORKER: Dead Again

  • At Oxford in the nineteen-forties, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was generally considered the most boring lecturer around, teaching the most boring subject known to man, Anglo-Saxon philology and literature, in the most boring way imaginable.

    NEWYORKER: The Dragon��s Egg

  • The corpse of Soviet Communism had barely cooled at the time, and our talk wandered from the causes of its demise to the radicalism of New York intellectuals in the nineteen-thirties and forties the Communists, their fellow-travellers, their socialist and Trotskyist enemies and thence to the curious ways in which the influence of those lingering enmities is still felt.

    NEWYORKER: Politics and Prose

  • In the late nineteen-forties, Alex Osborn, a partner in the advertising agency B.

    NEWYORKER: Groupthink

  • In fact I did worry that I might be in the oldest mum when taking junior to school until we met other forties at the ante-natal classes.

    BBC: Baby Talk

  • The strands of intimate and historical memory twist together in this delicate, haunted drama, from 1986, in which the director Hou Hsiao-hsien conjures his reminiscences of childhood and adolescence in a remote Taiwan village in the nineteen-forties and fifties.

    NEWYORKER: A Time to Live and a Time to Die

  • The head of El Cigarral, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas), who wears perfectly fitted suits, and combs his black hair back in the manner of a nineteen-forties movie star, sweeps in and out of the place.

    NEWYORKER: Creep Shows

  • His earliest surviving work, from the early fifteen-forties, is anti-Titianesque radically sculptural and draftsmanly, embracing Central Italian influences.

    NEWYORKER: Venetian Brass

  • It smelled of motor oil and friction heat, the way a nineteen-forties Spitfire might.

    NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder

  • The old Three Stooges shorts were made in the nineteen-thirties and forties, and if you watch them now they look cramped, airless, and smudged.

    NEWYORKER: Funny and Funnier

  • BP's Forties pipeline from the North Sea, which comes ashore at Grangemouth, carries about 700, 000 barrels of crude oil a day between a quarter and a fifth of Britain's offshore production.

    ECONOMIST: The workers may be biting off more than they can chew

  • Five out of the six are in their forties.

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  • The blue-asbestos mine that Hancock ran in the nineteen-thirties and forties at Wittenoom is thought to have caused hundreds of asbestos-related deaths, many of them among its largely Aboriginal workforce, but Hancock never accepted the medical connection, let alone responsibility.

    NEWYORKER: The Miner��s Daughter

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