Yet we constantly find in books on law, and on medical jurisprudence, the expression "nine months or forty weeks.
A hundred a week, and a forty weeks' contract, with the usual notice on both sides.
Forty weeks at two hundred and-- "Forty weeks, you goose!
The laws of England declare that the usual period of human utero-gestation is nine calendar months, or forty weeks; farther than this they do not fix a definite period: the law is not exact as to a few days.
The most usual period is about nine months, or from thirty-five to forty weeks, some females going beyond the thirty-six weeks, and others not so long.
Now the average duration of pregnancy is two hundred and eighty days, that is forty weeks, or ten lunar months.
While most extended observations have shown that as a general rule, forty weeks, or two hundred and eighty days, is the true period of pregnancy, are we justified in the conclusion that this is its invariable duration?
Abundant and satisfactory testimony has proved that the prolongation of pregnancy beyond the ordinary period of two hundred and eighty days, or forty weeks, is possible.
There is on record one fact, well observed, which establishes beyond cavil the possibility of the protraction of pregnancy beyond two hundred and eighty days, or forty weeks.
A guide published last year gives a total of about four thousand five hundred theatres, that kept open their doors for an average of forty weeks.
Twenty years later the manager paid this same actor a salary of one hundred thousand dollars for a season of forty weeks in Shakespearian rôles.
It was said of him then, as it was said later on, that he could sit in his little office and make out a forty weeks' tour for a company without recourse to a map.
Charles now brought the stars together, offered them a guarantee of $5,000 a week for a forty weeks' engagement and for three seasons.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forty weeks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
