Once, long, long ago, almost forty years back, he passed through Ravenna and sent me a postcard of one of these famous mosaics.

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Our data, good data, goes back quite a bit longer than forty or so years.

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Forty-two percent back handling the case in civilian court.

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Kounin went back over the videotape and noticed that forty-five seconds before Mary whispered to Jane, Lucy and John had started whispering.

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Then, flash forward to present again for forty five minutes before jumping back to the past for the better part of four hours, nearly the entire rest of the game.

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Forty percent had to cut back on transitional housing.

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In New York State, forty percent of all inmates who are released will wind up back in prison within three years.

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Over the next month and a half he proceeded to spend one full day in each of the forty-eight states, until in late October he made his way back to the Long Island runway from which he'd taken off on Labor Day weekend.

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Another lady, whose name I could never remember, was only forty-five but looked ninety, a complete ghettowreck: overweight, with a bad back, bad kidneys, bad knees, diabetes, and maybe sciatica.

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