They have collected money for forty years.

他们聚敛钱财已经有40年了。

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He reigned over the country for forty years.

他统治了这个国家四十年。

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So the land had peace for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

于是国中太平四十年。 基纳斯的儿子俄陀聂死了。

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Clarence Clemons played saxophone in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band for forty years.

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There are still people now that live--there's a woman that lives near our village and she's lived in our village, she was born in the next village, and she's lived in our village for forty years because she married a guy from the village; and she's from the next village, about twenty football throws away, or a little more than that.

现在还有人住在,有个女人住在,我们村子旁边,她曾经住我们村,她是在邻村出生的,她在我们村住了,有40年,因为她嫁到我们村来了,不过她是邻村人,扔二十次橄榄球就到了,也可能远点

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There is another aspect of the way in which the New Criticism has been criticized for the last forty or fifty years which needs to be touched on.

新批评主义还在一个方面,受到看批评,在我们研究的过去的四五十年里。

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Perkins had worked with Sonsini on various matters for forty years, and liked and trusted him.

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The U.S. median male full-time wage has stagnated and declined for forty years.

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But I understand and I've been battling liberal news media bias for forty years.

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