Example sentences of "last for a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mass and Vespers nicely illustrate the stylistic dichotomy of church music which was to last for a very long time and which Monteverdi had already distinguished in the foreword to his Fifth Book of madrigals as prima and seconda pratica . |
| 2 | Then , as we saw in the previous chapter , it was introduced in Scotland in 1989 and in England and Wales in 1990 , but it lasted for a very short period . |
| 3 | The vogue of the Klan lasted for a relatively short time , but at its height , it may have had five million members . |
| 4 | Laboratory experiments can only last for a relatively short time , and have to be held within the confines of the laboratory . |
| 5 | And the reverberations of that shared theory may last for a very long time , long after the institution which was its natural concomitant in day-to-day social practices has gone . |
| 6 | A good quality carpet should last for a very long time . |
| 7 | Basically , it reduces to the realization that man 's gelada-like past — which must have lasted for a very considerable period , even by the standards of evolutionary time — left an indelible stamp on both his id and his ego . |