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forty-two

ADJECTIVE
  1. being two more than forty

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  • Once primarily limited to intergang violence, the bloodshed of the city’s drug trade began spilling onto the streets of the border city in July 1997, when, at the age of forty-two, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died during a botched cosmetic surgery procedure in Mexico City, supposedly designed to change his appearance to evade law enforcement. THE DAUGHTERS OF JUÁREZ
  • Forty-two percent of the diet of the black-footed penguin is small shoaling fish, with 25 species of fish, including anchovies (Engraulis capensis) and sardines (Sardinops sagax) being recorded, as well as 18 species of crustaceans, three species of squid, and one species of polychaete worm. Black-footed penguin
  • The pair travel in an orbit from fourteen to forty-two times the radius of the Earth's orbit; so that when at apastron they are three times as distant from each other as when at periastron. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
  • The only hope for the Democrats to block Alito was by a filibuster, and even with forty-two votes against him this was not something that they were willing to do. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
  • Let the front of a Doric temple, at the place where the columns are put up, be divided, if it is to be tetrastyle, into twenty-seven parts; if hexastyle, into forty-two. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • For starters there are forty-two different kinds of mezes, cold dishes, soups and salads all for a modest £2.95 each.
  • An exciting and varied programme of forty-two special-interest holidays both overseas and within Britain has been designed exclusively for the National Trust.
  • The children who attend the forty-two camps around America are aged between two and fourteen.
  • United States in Congress assembled_: That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered to Captain David Ritchie, commanding the revenue steamer Mocassin, and to the officers and men under his command, for their heroic and humane action in saving the lives of forty-two persons from the wreck of the steamer "Metis" on the waters of Long Island Sound, on the morning of the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
  • At forty-two, Lena Macy is standing at major a crossroads in her life. I.O.U.
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