Example sentences of "last only " in BNC.
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| 1 | It believes that this ‘ crisis ’ level of interest rates may only may last only a short while but that a ‘ risk premium ’ may remain throughout the life of a Labour government , with adverse implications for growth . |
| 2 | The copy of the tune ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ that exists in my brain will last only for the rest of my life . |
| 3 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 4 | The two tanks hold 400,000 gallons of water , which was sufficient in 1916 to last South Holderness for two days but would now last only about two and a half hours . |
| 5 | But occasionally , and forgiveably in a live commentary that may last only seconds , his tongue has played tricks . |
| 6 | A chital hind may last only a day but a chital stag weighing up to 200 lb ( 90 kg ) will feed a tiger for two or three days . |
| 7 | The idea seems to have been that this bombing would last only until the Bosnian government had the armaments it wanted to fight its own war . |
| 8 | They had no ration cards for buying food and , in any case , their money would last only a little while . |
| 9 | These stated explicitly that the Government would last only for the emergency , and that any subsequent elections would be fought not by the Government as a whole but by the parties . |
| 10 | The instructions were not carried out and the wife signed the deed without reading it , in reliance on the husband 's false representation that it was limited to £60,000 and would last only three weeks . |
| 11 | She knew she was signing a mortgage of the matrimonial home but she believed , from what Mr. O'Brien had told her , that the security was limited to £60,000 and would last only three weeks . |
| 12 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
| 13 | Will my right hon. Friend take no lectures from the Labour party on short-termism , as its short-term policies will last only as long as the election and change for every by-election — |
| 14 | His own new powers , however , should last only until direct elections for a President were held . |
| 15 | Researchers predict that the forests will last only 10 years unless Soviet sulphur levels are cut . |
| 16 | The obligation will usually last only for as long as the information retains the necessary quality of confidence . |
| 17 | The consensus will last only so long as most lawyers accept the convictions that support it . |
| 18 | Caroline modelled not for Valentino but for Fabbiano and designers like him , whose careers would last only fractionally longer than the lives of fruit flies , whose successes were dependent not on talent but on flash and dash . |
| 19 | He will also give coast-to-coast interviews on at least four American TV channels during a visit which will last only about 36 hours — PA . |