Example sentences for: forty

How can you use “forty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for industry generally specified minimum wage rates, overtime after forty hours of work per week, and a prohibition of child labor.

  • Forty percent of health-care professionals reported that it is possible to determine a person's HIV status by looking at him or her, and 21% agreed that they could refuse to treat a patient with HIV/AIDS to protect themselves and their family.

  • Forty extra pounds notwithstanding, Sylvester Stallone fails to ascend to the ranks of his co-stars, the great character actors Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Ray Liotta.

  • Forty percent believed health-care professionals with HIV/AIDS should not be allowed to work in any area of health-care requiring patient contact.

  • It is not uncommon for the word fuck and its derivatives to appear thirty or forty times in a police movie; in GoodFellas , the count would certainly be well over one hundred.


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