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  • * When I say old, I'm referring to the age of a friendship and, bien sûr, * to the number of years that one friend recently tacked on to his birth date: quarante!

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Le sénateur américain Joseph McCarthy 1908-1957 lança une “chasse aux sorcières”, qui dura de la fin des années quarante à la fin des années cinquante.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Rene Meertens 2010

  • Kristin: Joyeuses Fêtes - tu verras que les années quarante vont trop vite - comme toutes les autres.

    empreinte de pied - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • * When I say old, I'm referring to the age of a friendship and, bien sûr, * to the number of years that one friend recently tacked on to his birth date: quarante!

    avocat - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • * When I say old, I'm referring to the age of a friendship and, bien sûr, * to the number of years that one friend recently tacked on to his birth date: quarante!

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • It translates to quarante-cinq sur soixante in French.

    Oh, for the love of god. Angry Professor 2009

  • Daimler also bound today and the CAC quarante down 2.16 percent.

    CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2009 2009

  • This total of twenty — nine, with three forms of “Purusháyit,” when the man lies supine (see the Abbot in Boccaccio i. 4), becomes thirty-two, approaching the French quarante façons.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • * When I say old, I'm referring to the age of a friendship and, bien sûr,* to the number of years that one friend recently tacked on to his birth date: quarante!

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Kristin: Joyeuses Fêtes - tu verras que les années quarante vont trop vite - comme toutes les autres.

    empreinte de pied - French Word-A-Day 2008

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