He afterwards consented to undertake the government of his native church of Nazianzus, of which his father had been bishop above five-and-forty years.
The account of forty years must be dated from the election or intrusion of Eusebius, who wisely exchanged the bishopric of Nicomedia for the throne of Constantinople.
He afterwards consented to undertake the government of his native church of Nazianzus, [31] of which his father had been bishop above five-and-forty years.
Forty years on, growing older and older, Shorter in wind, and in memory long, Feeble of foot and rheumatic of shoulder, What will it help you that once you were strong?
After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
It happened at the end of forty years, that Absalom said to the king, please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.
For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
Footnote 17: Forty years ago, a gentleman in New York purchased a considerable body of wild land, on the faith of the map.
As Mr. Speaker Nicoll resigned the chair in 1718, this house must be at least a hundred and thirty or forty years old; and it may be questioned if a dozen as old, public of private, can be found on the whole island.
I am forty years of age and have served the De Aldithelys all my life.
And that thou wilt find when thou hast lived to be forty years old.
Mayhap I had known more of them, but in my forty years I have had to do with other matters, like serving my lord and lady in troublous times.
Hadst thou been a Saxon as long as I have been, and that is forty years, thou hadst found it out before this.
I be forty years old," he said, "and what be safer than a tree but many trees?
When 1870 came, forty years of Warner's life had gone by, and nearly twenty years since he had left college.
Do you think you have anything to say about the use of my money, scraped up in forty years in Ingy?
A fortune, scraped up in forty years in Ingy, ain't to be thrown away in a minute.
He had been a fanatic and an enthusiast in his youth, and if his fanaticism led him too far, he paid the penalty in forty years of exile.
An ambitious man would either have found a field for his ambition elsewhere in forty years, or the passion would have died a natural death by that time.
Well, I was going to say that in forty years, a man might learn to love an adopted country as well as his own, and might prefer to stay there.
Mr Carker was a gentleman thirty-eight orforty years old, of a florid complexion, and with two unbroken rows of glistening teeth, whose regularity and whiteness were quite distressing.
From eighteen to forty years, in fact, counting in every chance cursory acquaintanceship, we may well say that we have been intimate with two or three hundred women.
Forty years of which nothing remained, not even a memory, not even a misfortune, since the death of his parents.
You have got on without seeing him for the last forty years.
Ideas may be modified and renewed, so that inforty years of life we may, by gradual and constant transformations, become four or five totally new and different beings.
The little room where he had been spending his days for forty years was so dark that even in the middle of summer one could hardly see without gaslight from eleven until three.
Never once in forty years of intimacy did his son notice in him a trace of snobbishness.
The mob rose; the greatest mob, says Mr. Sheriff Blunt, that he has known in forty years.
I would not have the labours of forty years, which was Vertue's case, depreciated in compliment to the work of four months, which is almost my whole merit.
He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years.
And after that they desired a king: and God gave them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, forty years.
And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done evil in his sight, was consumed.
For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they had been scattered.
If his Majesty takes off the confiscation because he is convinced it was originally violent and unjust, then have I a right to demand the rents of two-and-forty years.
We embraced as brothers must, after the absence of two-and-forty years.
I journey, within the Imperial permission, back to my country, from which I have been two-and-forty years expelled!
I was received at his house within open arms; and, for the first time after an interval of two-and-forty years, beheld one of my own relations.
Forty years ago it seemed as ridiculous to timid, time-serving and retrograde folk for women to demand an expurgated edition of the laws, as it now does to demand an expurgated edition of the Liturgies and the Scriptures.
If Miriam had helped to plan the journey to Canaan, it would no doubt have been accomplished in forty days instead of forty years.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forty years" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
