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The crown of the weeping cherry, motionless and more than forty feet high, was a feathery mass against a sky strewn with stars.
NEWYORKER: The House Behind a Weeping Cherry
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The thing had to be thirty or forty feet long.
NEWYORKER: Swimming
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Before the lights had gone out, the tourists had soaked in the spectacle: several million years old, wrinkled and tinted with orange, rising up nearly forty feet, as huge as a house.
NPR: 'Grapes Of Wrath' And The Politics of Book Burning
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T. bataar was slightly smaller than T. rex, which is like drawing a distinction between a city bus and a school bus: the largest known T. bataar stood ten feet high, was up to forty feet long, and had nearly six dozen huge, spiky teeth, with jaws of crushing torque.
NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention
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The next zone is where the cooking gets done two parallel lines of countertop, forty-some feet long and just three shoe-lengths apart, with fifteen people pivoting in place between the stovetops and grills on the hot side and the neatly laid-out bins of fixings (sauces, garnishes, seasonings, and the like) on the cold side.
NEWYORKER: Big Med
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Painter is six feet three and forty-two, with dark hair, rimless eyeglasses, and a deep voice.
NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention
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Forty-thousand nanoseconds is 40 thousand feet, so you see the problem.
BBC: Meet the world's director of time
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Jones is prized by del Toro for his tiny head, swanlike neck, and spindly physique (six feet three, a hundred and forty pounds).
NEWYORKER: Show The Monster
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Forty-two radio dishes, each 20 feet in diameter, were powered up on Oct. 11, to scope out galaxies, black holes, and--maybe, just maybe--alien civilizations.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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He was only five feet four and a hundred and forty-five pounds, yet he could take a man forty pounds heavier, press him in the air sixteen times with one hand, and hold a mug of beer in the other without spilling it.
NEWYORKER: The Strongest Man in the World
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In response to nearly a thousand queries, the Scientology delegation handed over forty-eight binders of supporting material, stretching nearly seven linear feet.
NEWYORKER: The Apostate
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He was forty-six at the time, and built like Anderson: five feet seven, about two hundred pounds.
NEWYORKER: King of Walks