6 sentences with “forty”

A good diet should be made up of thirty-five to forty percent lipids. That is, fats, both animal and vegetable.

For the next forty years, Italy avoided major conflicts, a period that coincided with the heyday of the Renaissance.

A revolutionary crowd gathered and, after panic-stricken soldiers shot and killed forty demonstrators, began to build barricades and prepare to fight back.

In other words, it had been more than forty years since the great powers had had any experience of a war on European soil, and as they realised all too soon, much had changed with the nature of warfare in the interim.

For nearly forty years, the church was a battleground between the two rival popes and their respective followers, and both laymen and monarchs were generally able to go about their business without fear of papal intervention.

When he was about forty years old, Muhammad returned to Mecca and reported that he had been contacted by the archangel Gabriel, who informed him that he, Muhammad, was to bring God's message to the people of Mecca and to the world.