Example sentences of "that last for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Repeated training can cause changes that last for several weeks . |
| 2 | Problem behaviour ( like tantrums ) that last for hours . |
| 3 | Some alien imports are quickly acclimatised into artistic traditions that last for decades or centuries , and nobody bothers if most of Shakespeare 's sources were continental , if porcelain came to England from China by way of Saxony , or if almost all the literary kinds the English tradition has excelled in , excepting only the detective story , have been borrowed from abroad . |
| 4 | But within this complete chronology we can discern some processes and states of affairs that are comparatively brief , others that last for an intermediate length of time , and some that go on for centuries or even millennia . |
| 5 | The result is made up eyebrows or lip lines that last for at least a year — but it does n't come cheap . |
| 6 | When parents refuse , there is either an almighty bust-up or a continuing groundswell of discontent that lasts for weeks . |
| 7 | Produces an immediate high that lasts for about ten minutes followed by a deep low and often instant addiction |
| 8 | Sky-high costs in places like the US can turn a dream holiday into an costly nightmare that lasts for months after . |
| 9 | Does effort now lead to a cost reduction that lasts for ever , or must it be applied in every period for example ? |
| 10 | The second-hand boat market is saturated ; yachts seem to drop in value to a level that lasts for decades , never entirely disappearing from the market . |
| 11 | Assume that a unit buys a minibus for 10,000 that lasts for four years and at the end of Year 4 is worthless . |
| 12 | This is a natural condition before menarche , and it re-occurs after menopause , during pregnancy as well as after abortion or birth ( post-partum amenorrhoea ) that lasts for some months even if the women does not breastfeed or nurses only for a short period . |
| 13 | BI The name of the mythical northern cockerel ; a reverie that lasts for more than twenty ( Earth ) years |
| 14 | She was in that indeterminate middle age that lasts for ever with unattractive women . |
| 15 | By establishing a paradigm for psychological investigation that lasted for some forty years , behaviourists seriously delayed the understanding of human cognition . |
| 16 | Brick-making was an early industrial entrant into the Chiltern Hills , where there is no natural building stone except flint , and it was in the fifteenth century that brick works first appeared at Nettlebed , to establish a local business that lasted for five hundred years . |
| 17 | Then he became dopey and fell into a deep sleep that lasted for several hours . |
| 18 | On Norfolk Island , John met Mary Ann Shears , the daughter of a convict and they formed an attachment that lasted for the rest of his life . |
| 19 | After a much interrupted speech that lasted for nearly an hour , he ended resoundingly : |
| 20 | It was Desmond who put me on the game — that lasted for a few months , then I got fed up with it . |
| 21 | a partnership that lasted for sixty years . |
| 22 | Professor Everitt has written that innkeepers were among the most mobile elements in the community , but that only a minority established dynasties that lasted for three or four generations . |
| 23 | The sheer joy of having pockets and flies was something that lasted for weeks . |
| 24 | Spain is , together with Portugal , marked out from other European countries by its ambiguous historical engagement with the New World and with Africa ( for example , the Moorish conquest in the eighth century led to a domination that lasted for up to eight centuries in some regions ) . |