Example sentences of "last very " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He did n't last very long in Normandy ! |
| 2 | I had never tried cutting paeonies , thinking they would not last very long , but Daphne tells me they will survive for a week or more with proper conditioning . |
| 3 | But The Henderson Kids role did not last very long and Dannii still remained the more famous in the Minogue celebrity stakes . |
| 4 | She was too honest to deceive him and too prudent to exchange him for a lover whose interest would probably not last very long . |
| 5 | The top notes are highly volatile ; they do not last very long ( coriander , citrus oils ) . |
| 6 | However , since in this situation customers never knew what they were buying , the scheme did n't last very long . |
| 7 | If I am in a studio and initially feel slightly lukewarm towards a particular piece I find it does not last very long because I soon get caught up with the work of a strong artist . |
| 8 | I 'm afraid that desirable state did not last very long . |
| 9 | This ‘ new ’ Parliament did not last very long . |
| 10 | It does not last very long in the aquarium , but while it lasts it produces a very attractive erect rosette . |
| 11 | But this phase did n't last very long . |
| 12 | In the end they failed , but during their period of dominance they entered the sugar trade very successfully and persuaded the English in the West Indies to grow sugar to take the place of tobacco ; at first they thought they could absorb the English islands into the Amsterdam trading system , but while it quite soon turned out that this was not the case and direct Dutch influence did not last very long , the commitment to sugar dominated the islands for at least two hundred years and remained important long afterwards . |
| 13 | I did n't last very long . |
| 14 | Pound had been released from confinement in April 1958 , largely as a result of Eliot 's collaboration with Robert Frost and Archibald MacLeish in petitioning the American government , but his exhilaration at his new freedom did not last very long . |
| 15 | I got on top of her and as usual I did n't last very long , which annoyed me a bit because I did n't feel I was getting my money 's worth . |
| 16 | calcium hydroxide hydrogen chloride you get calcium chloride formed and you got this thing well it 's quite likely that this does form initially , but it does n't last very long and it 's not very stable and it |
| 17 | Oh , she had the bag of coins beneath the bedroom floorboards , but it was no fortune , and with four mouths to feed it would n't last very long . |
| 18 | And one or two er little odd jobs like this er for er for the summer period , but er obviously these harvest jobs er did n't last very long . |
| 19 | That did n't last very long . |
| 20 | But unfortunately he did not last very long , and his views were soon considered out of date by his successors . |
| 21 | So they do n't last very long . |
| 22 | Two-headed snakes are rare and do n't last very long . |
| 23 | Er well that did n't last very long , he was n't really cut out for that sort of thing at all . |
| 24 | Did n't last very long . |
| 25 | Then came the arrest , and the trial , which did not last very long . |
| 26 | In the middle of the document , he says that if the MacSharry proposals were accepted — he says that they would be — they would not last very long because they would be too expensive . |
| 27 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 28 | Well , there not , one 's not gon na last very long |
| 29 | They 're not gon na last very long not a like that is it ? |
| 30 | you buy jam today , it do n't last very long . |