What is "forty-eight"

Usage examples of "forty-eight".

Bryar, another top challenger from the lower forty-eight, and Lombard ran teams of registered Siberian Huskies against the Alaskan village dogs.

Prime Minister that we put some of our forces in Bahrein and Aden on a forty-eight hour alert in due course.

While George bought booties from one of the very few suppliers in the lower forty-eight, he too participated in the bootie collect-and- try game.

DNA coding sequence of the D4 receptor, a forty-eight base-pair sequence that controls clozapine and spiperone binding, especially when it appears as an eightfold repeat.

Forty-eight frightened eyes stared back at herthe entire Highborn population of the Coman compound, most under the age of thirteen.

Homeric epics presented in the forty-eight chapters of this book is not helped much by the two and a half thousand years of ingenious speculation on the Homeric question, but it might, quite incidentally, add one more opinion to them.

A stout middle-class man of forty-eight with a large, plump face, thinning hair and a rather Germanic if good-natured appearance, he had begun his career in China as a language student in 1907, and had served as Consul in cities from Hankow to Chungking.

Forty-eight hours had passed by, Forty-eight hours in which Lucas had knocked on doors and attempted to interview SLEEP OF THE INNOCENT 65 the residents of the Karlsbad Hotel, the shopkeepers on both sides of the street, the owners of the town houses behind the hotel.

In the human bloodstream they take a form known as merozoites, which burrow into the red blood cells and reproduce asexually, each one producing 6 to 26 new individuals which burst out to infect new blood cells on a cycle that repeats every forty-eight hours.

Gillots came into oestrus every forty-eight days, while the stalluns performed the sexual act every three weeks.

Captain Hasan-Bey, an Osmanli of Cavala who, having been forty-eight years in the service, sighed for his pension.

Monte radioed back that he will attack Teterboro Airport within forty-eight hours.

The Rebels resumed their slow, block-by-block taking of the last major bastion of lawlessness and cannibalism and slavery in the lower forty-eight.

Francine not to recolor her hair for forty-eight hours after her set, but did she listen to me?

I taught for forty-eight years and she had to be one of the smartest kids I ever had.