Sentence examples for only four decades from inspiring English sources

The Chickamauga Creek country was only four decades removed from a state of nature.

If I had only four decades left, what did I want to do and learn?

The city was only four decades old but had already become the largest in the world.

The promised concert has led many here to reflect on the cocooned simplicity of life only four decades ago.

Regardless of whether you favor a trade in ivory or not, it is worth remembering that only four decades ago there was a thriving legal trade in ivory, which was so out of control that African elephants faced extinction.

As Mr. Summitt points out, it's been only four decades since his mother drove the team bus, washed the uniforms and made $250 a month as head women's basketball coach at Tennessee.

Only three decades to go.

This, after only three decades of existence.

Yet the second republic lasted only two decades, until the German invasion of Poland in 1939.

"I believe we are only two decades from fully modelling and simulating the human brain".

Lithuania, however, is only two decades removed from Soviet rule, and its government was less welcoming.