Example sentences of "last [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now you can take another positive step in helping to preserve our planet by using new mercury free long life alkaline batteries from UCAR … which last much longer than the ordinary types . |
| 2 | They last much longer than incandescent tubes , offer more light per watt but need to be carefully chosen in the right colours for the most accurate presentation of food . |
| 3 | The advantages of these are that they last much longer and cost much less to run ( the saving well outweighs the higher asking price ) ; their disadvantages are that the light they give is not quite so ‘ warm ’ and does not come on instantly . |
| 4 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 5 | But these workers had a " guts feeling " that if things were designed to last much longer and an infrastructure was set up to repair them , at least as much work would be created in doing so as was available in the capital-intensive mass production lines producing the throw-away goods . |
| 6 | Officials emphasized that this move , anticipated to last not more than three months , did not constitute a step towards a state of emergency but simply formalised the existing situation . |
| 7 | I have no desire for this ordeal to last any longer than need be . ’ |
| 8 | They did n't expect it to last forever especially since he was planning to go to college back East . |
| 9 | Exile from the West Country was to last far longer than Coleridge can have expected . |
| 10 | Repairs , which with any good shop are guaranteed , last as long as the original . |
| 11 | Therefore it is a matter of cultivating the interior images which last as long as the human being lives . |
| 12 | The real wonder is not that some who profess to believe fall away after continuing so long but that some last as long as they do with as little as they have . |
| 13 | Fortunately , not all curtain walls last as long as Eternit . |
| 14 | I never say my work is going to last a long time — usually five to ten years , though obviously the smaller pieces which are kept inside last as long as people look after them . |
| 15 | I 'm taking steps to make sure that I last as long as possible . |
| 16 | Middlemass had finished The Times crossword by quarter to ten and had made the rest of the paper last as long as possible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We did n't expect it to last as long as it has , and were hoping for some relief by the end of the year . |
| 20 | ‘ Sometimes , my friend , I wonder how you 've managed to last as long as you have . ’ |
| 21 | The trip is expected to last even longer than the seven-month record set by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Anatoly Berezevoi in December . |
| 22 | And will this recovery — rather like our festive firs — prove to be rootless and temporary , lasting no longer than Twelfth Night and the January sales ? |
| 23 | ALTHOUGH John Kirwan might be in a honeymoon mood at the moment after the whole All Black team turned up at his recent marriage in Italy ( see pages 54 and 65 ) , his good humour is unlikely to last too long if the NZRFU meeting on December 12 and 13th decides to take action against him over his public announcement that he would not make himself available for the All Blacks if Auckland coach John Hart is not Grizz Wyllie 's successor as national coach . |
| 24 | LTF , however , lasts much longer than a mere ten hours ; the effect can also be found in unanaesthetized animals implanted with permanent electrodes , and in such animals the potentiation has been observed as much as 16 weeks after the initial brief burst of stimulation . |
| 25 | The halogen bulb 's unique regenerative cycle means that the filament does not wear out , the glass does not blacken , and the bulb lasts much longer than ordinary bulbs in fact , for between 2000 and 400 hours — all of which makes the halogen bulb an extremely efficient form of lighting . |
| 26 | The season of production lasts probably less than two months in the Arctic basin , and up to four months in the peripheral region ( read Bursa , 1961 ) . |
| 27 | ( 2 ) When the clothing lasts far longer than even the best quality jeans , and costs no more , how will the agents maintain a business based on clothes bought near enough once in a lifetime ? ( 3 ) Is anyone stupid enough to want to wear heavy-duty , fur-lined , withstands-bloody-cold-arctic-conditions clothing in the summer ? |
| 28 | NORWICH need to find their touch in front of goal or their Premier League lead might not last much longer than the New Year celebrations . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |