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Example sentences for "after forty"

  • After forty years, they reached the broad valley which runs from the eastern gulf of the Red Sea, along the foot of Mount Seir, to the valley of the Dead Sea.

  • After forty years my blood almost creeps as I recall that narrow escape.

  • After forty years, what would I take for that association with all its dangers and hardships?

  • One of our grizzly-headed "boys," after forty years, tells the following story of his experiences on a foraging expedition from the camp.

  • After forty-odd years the Germans, in many ways the most cultivated nation in the world, are still without real representative government.

  • After forty-four years the problem of Alsace-Lorraine seemed to be very little nearer a solution than it was at its inception.

  • The entire procession was looked upon and welcomed as though it were sacred by the citizens of Syracuse, who, after forty-two years of tyranny, saw liberty and a popular constitution restored to their city.

  • And, after forty-five years, Yeast can be read and re-read still!

  • And in the end our essayist, the rebel from his Puritan traditions, and the close ally of sceptical Gallios, after forty pages of learned pros and cons, declares that he will not say more for fear of "exciting angry feelings.

  • Of Kingsley's remaining fanciful pieces it is enough to say that The Heroes still remains, after forty years, the child's introduction to Greek mythology, and is still the best book of its class.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after ages; after bathing; after careful; after dark; after debate; after drinking; after hearing; after much; after passing; after period; after preaching; after speaking; after sunset; after thinking; after various; after waiting; after years; afternoon service; afternoon teas; afterwards known; general intelligence; iron girders; profound secret; scientific study; section three; taken back