Sentence examples for 40 years before from inspiring English sources

I'd played Edgar at the Liverpool Everyman 40 years before, when I was just starting out.

The largest leak prior to them had come almost 40 years before, with the publication of the Pentagon Papers.

It took another 30 to 40 years before the ideas were rediscovered and then flourished.

Chargaff was professor of biochemistry at P&S for 40 years before retiring in 1974.

Private-sector employees in France must work for 40 years before they can retire.

The action takes place some 40 years before the moment of composition.

I hadn't set eyes on Ranald Graham since our student days in Dublin, 40 years before.

But it was another 40 years before the government took its first look at the problem.

Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer were together for 40 years before they married in 2007.

It would be 40 years before Hanna and her family were reunited.

It does not explain, however, why the bridge stood for 40 years before collapsing.