It has been about forty years since the United States Food and Drug Administration approved a drug especially for treating lupus.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

We had a similar, even higher price-to-earnings ratio of about forty-six at the peak in 2000 and it corrected way down.

000年时我们的市盈率甚至更高,达到了46,后来经过修正降低了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It takes about forty minutes on the bus.

路上大概要四十分钟。

开车上学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It says citizen cooperation after publicity about the crime has resulted in the capture of about forty percent of the suspected criminals.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The idea is that English has about forty of these phonemes.

英语拥有大约四十个音位

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

About forty percent of BP shareholders are in Britain, but almost as many are in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

All of this the New Criticism had a great deal to do with-- and when I talk next time about the way in which it's been vilified for the last forty or fifty years, naturally I will have this in the back of my mind.

这些都跟新批评派有关-,等我下次再说到这个,在四五十年前饱受诋毁的文学鉴赏方式的时候，我还会想起今天所说的话。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The New York Times newspaper reports that,on average, people experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.

这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

There are about forty Martian meteorites worldwide although there may be more hidden in collections around the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

The Confucius Classroom program is in about forty countries, including more than fifty American schools and universities.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The WHO estimates that about forty percent of them have health disorders related to diet and nutrition.

VOA: special.2010.08.23

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

About forty-five thousand boys and leaders from all fifty states and many foreign countries took part.

VOA: special.2010.08.06

The Aurignacian culture began about forty thousand years ago and ended about twenty-eight thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

By comparison, the president's approval rating was about forty-five percent after the congressional elections in November.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

Now heat the dye for about forty-five minutes or until the wool is the desired color.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

It was the beginning of a career with the company that lasted about forty years.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

The average person is said to experience feelings of loneliness about forty-eight days a year.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

About forty percent of all health care-associated infections are linked to the use of catheters.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

The study found that about forty percent of women became pregnant again within six months.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

It said grassland bird populations fell by about forty percent in forty years.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Boil the liquid until the onionskins lose their color, about forty-five minutes.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

The treatment has been performed about forty thousand times throughout the world.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

Also this week, environment ministers from about forty countries met in Copenhagen.

VOA: special.2009.11.21

Each year about forty million people visit the Mall of America.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

It is made up of about forty drawingsof Miz Adams' hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Each piece should weigh about forty to sixty grams.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

Last year,about forty-five thousand travelers visited the continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

About forty hectares have been completed.

VOA: special.2009.10.06