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forty-three

num. The cardinal number immediately following forty-two and preceding forty-four.

WordNet
forty-three

adj. being three more than forty [syn: 43, xliii]

Usage examples of "forty-three".

In 1734, in October, the golden time of year on the Massachusetts shore, Deacon John Adams, at age forty-three, married Susanna Boylston of Brookline.

Washington and Adams were nearly the same age, Washington, at forty-three, being just three years older.

The Bedaux army consisted of forty-three persons, including a Spanish maid.

Duguerry, Magistrate Bonjean, General Bergeret and forty-three others.

And because Zaq was in his seventh year as the Chuang Tzu, when he sighed it was as Emperor and so he was watched by forty-three billion people, a figure that rose rapidly as others realized what might be about to happen.

During this leg, where the current provided twenty and the Flettner sails sixteen nautical miles of the distance made good, they made the slowest progress of the entire run, an average of only forty-three miles a day for thirty days.

Athletics, we won thirty-one and lost twenty-one, while of the sixty games in which the Bostons figured they won forty-three and lost but seventeen, a wonderful showing when the playing strength of the clubs pitted against them is taken into consideration.

Knoxville before being toppled by the usual blow scandal, fed her the questions and gave orders to their cameraman, the aging, overweight hepcat Barney Lumpen, forty-three, who could do all that stuff in his sleep and never listened to the interviews.

I saw the shitbirds chasing hepcat, who looked suspiciously like the subject of felony warrant number four eleven dash forty-three.

Erasmus has convinced me that the current strain of the retrovirus is sufficiently deadly for our purposes, though it kills only forty-three percent of the humans who are exposed.

Estimate target speed roughly eight knots, distance forty-three thousand yards.

The spreading of forty-three divisions, or half the mobile French army, from Longwy to the Swiss frontier, the whole of which was either defended by the Maginot Line forts or by the broad, swift-flowing Rhine, with its own fortress system behind it, was an improvident disposition.

And in 1997, Amy Sorensen Profitt, age forty-three, dead of pneumococcal pneumonia.

Not always and unvaryingly, but about one hundred and forty-three months out of twelve years, perhaps.

He took no chances but covered the forty-three kilometres to Abbeville in a quarter of an hour.