Example sentences of "last [adv] long as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Repairs , which with any good shop are guaranteed , last as long as the original . |
2 | Therefore it is a matter of cultivating the interior images which last as long as the human being lives . |
3 | But for once it was the taking part that counted most and when you 've slept in the ruins of a fifties French post office , seen the New Year in with champers in the middle of a sand dune , coped with Idi Amin look-alike policemen and paid backstreet prices to backstreet petrol dealers , you 're going to have memories to last as long as the event . |
4 | The DIY element comes in when you find the sheet of self-adhesive stickers to label the blank keytops with ! It 's cheap , messy and unlikely to last as long as the legends painted on the original rubber ones . |
5 | That this Second World War would not last so long as the First , and even that it might not be a war on such a world-scale , were legitimate presumptions at the time , and Eliot was firmly of the opinion that we should be thinking then and there of the world which would finally emerge . |
6 | Vauxhall 's Nova 1.5TD , for instance , is a fast , frugal hatchback with an Isuzu turbodiesel which when properly maintained should last as long as a naturally-aspirated engine . |
7 | And he said his company 's 99p set of earrings would not last as long as a Marks and Spencer prawn sandwich . |
8 | The quality and strength , allied to their beauty , mean that our chairs and tables will last as long as the old Lloyd Loom furniture now fetching high prices in antique shops . |
9 | The habit of association among hand-loom weavers could last as long as the class of workmen itself , or at least until it became too unstable and diluted to preserve it . |
10 | The licence may be for a fixed , perhaps renewable , period of time or there may be no mention of duration , in which case it can be assumed that the licence will last as long as the software is subject to copyright protection . |