Example sentences of "lasted [prep] [art] few " in BNC.

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1 The acute depression lasted for a few months but the wounds healed enough for Gedge to build up a friendship with Duane , whose latent qualities he later recognised .
2 The Syracusan tyranny lasted for a few more years ; Hiero was even able to install his son Deinomenes as ruler of a new city of Etna , built to house the population of Katane and Naxos , ousted some time in the 470s ( cp .
3 His visit lasted for a few hours at most — taking into account the time spent asleep — and the only really detailed description he gave was of the accommodation in which he slept in General Gowon 's home .
4 It was Desmond who put me on the game — that lasted for a few months , then I got fed up with it .
5 Between the wars the Salvation Army started in Kent Road , but only lasted for a few years .
6 The Clintons ' marital problems , they say , began then and lasted until a few years ago .
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