1. How old are you? --I'm forty-eight.

2. Forty-eight hours have elapsed since his arrest.

3. He told us that her age was forty-eight or thereabouts.

4. Temperatures in the shade can reach forty-eight degrees celsius at this time of year.

5. The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; the man who is an optimist after forty-eight knows too little.

6. You newcomers call down there the Lower Forty-eight.

7. Paul Pratt travelled through forty-eight countries.

8. It took a full forty-eight hours to span the continent from New York to Los Angeles.

9. At least forty-eight loyalists were arrested, two of whom turned out to be full-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment.

10. Forty-eight people had died on the passage over, one fifth of those who had sailed.

11. Forty-eight percent of university educated women used the sheath compared to 27 percent of the rest.

12. Reagan and Gorbachev spent nine hours and forty-eight minutes in face-to-face negotiations.

13. Rhoda was forty-eight, blonde, buxom and so cheerful Ken said she ought to be a barmaid.

14. Forty-eight employees of the installation were fired for having smoked marijuana on occasion.

15. Forty-eight hours after the Centurion began beating east along the thirty-fifth parallel, land was sighted1.

16. There were now only forty-eight hours left until the craft carried out its programmed instructions.

17. Forty-eight years later, Park is fighting to regain those rights so that he can have a say in his local government.

18. Henry Foley's Records contain forty-eight pages of his letters, which display resolute leadership.

19. Forty-eight percent of staff arranging placements for common foundation students reported resistance from other agencies.

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20. But after forty-eight hours of Berlin the Joyces had lost their nerve.

21. The largest of the forty-eight recovered pieces weighs 27. 4 kilograms, more than adequate for lethality.

22. Airport visas may be obtained if forty-eight hours advance notice has been provided.

23. As every fine detail of the forty-eight columns was discussed, drawings were unrolled and pored over.

24. The actual numbers of surviving big mammals are astoundingly small-grizzly bears in the lower forty-eight states can be counted in the hundreds.

25. The states still could, but the federal government had left the field: the forty-eight governors stood there alone.

26. However, feeding is critical and soldiers who are unfed can't fight, indeed after about forty-eight hours they fall over!

27. Two sizeable works had gone in under two hours, although it was forty-eight hours before new outbreaks ceased.

28. The Prime Minister greeted the day in a much calmer mood than he had forty-eight hours before.

29. Over the next year and a half I became a competent pilot, making forty-eight dives as pilot-in-command.

30. Many more people were hired to handle the new business, on starting salaries of forty-eight grand.