There were about forty children to a class, sitting at double-desks and learning by rote . 每个班有四十名学生，用的都是双人桌，教学特点是死记硬背。
After the funeral, joe and bert revealed a secret which they had kept for over forty years . 葬礼之后，乔和伯特才把他们保守了四十多年的秘密公诸于众。
To have contemplated human life for forty years is the same as to have contemplated it for ten thousand years . 沉思40年人生与沉思一万年人生没有两样。
The winning car reached a speed of forty miles an hour -- much faster than any of its rivals . 获胜车的车速达到了每小时四十英里比它的任何对手都快得多。
The church is now a handsome edifice, most part of which was rebuilt forty or fifty years since . 这座教堂现在是一幢很考究的、大部分是四五十年前盖过的房子。
The average shore employment requires as much as forty years to equip a man with this sort of an education . 干陆地上的工作，需要四十年之久，才能使人获得这种教育。
Barnard's observation, made forty years ago, sounds remarkably like what we might hear from mr. matsushita . 巴纳德40年前发表的评论听起来很象我们从松下先生那里听到的。
Fully qualified civil engineers of forty were happy to work as draughtsmen for a low wage . 完全具有开业资格的四十岁左右的工程师如能从事绘图员工作谋得低微的工资，就已喜出望外了。
It is a curious coincidence that the day before his retirement , mr. page will have been teaching for a total of forty years . 到他退休的前，佩支先生正好教了整整四十年的书，这是一个奇妙的巧合。
