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Doe the Bible ever use the 40 cliche for something other than days & nights? I don't remember (but it's not something I paid much attention to when I was reading the Bible).
In a word: yes, it uses it all over the place. I believe also in the original Hebrew for the OT; I don't know anything about the NT. I was going to list some examples, but you can grep the Bible just as well as I can.
EDIT: Oh, I misread your question. Gimme forty seconds to go look.
RE-EDIT: 40 years in the wilderness.
Using Gutenberg's KJV, I get 111 hits for ' forty '; filtering 'forty and' (for numbers spelled out like 'forty and two') gets me 72. Filtering out 'days' and 'years', none of them seem to be the trope; so the Bible seems to use it solely for days and years, but not months, minutes, weeks, etc.
Cool.