Example sentences of "to last [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know sometimes erm people when they got their benefit , would try and do shopping for two weeks , but even that was unrealistic of how long they were , what they were buying was going to last for two weeks . |
| 2 | The trial is expected to last for two weeks . |
| 3 | Scheduled to last for two months , the dialogue was intended to present proposals on the direct election of regional parliaments and on the fiscal competencies of the francophone and Flemish executives . |
| 4 | This new phase , following on the day of judgement , was to last for all eternity . |
| 5 | John Davies , secretary of the No Fazakerley Prison Action Committee , is confident protesters will win the public inquiry , which is scheduled to last for five days . |
| 6 | John Davies , secretary of the No Fazakerley Prison Action Committee , is confident protesters will win the public inquiry , which is scheduled to last for five days . |
| 7 | The inquiry , expected to last for four days , continues . |
| 8 | They were measured again at the start of the experiment and every two weeks during the " active " phase which was due to last for eight weeks . |
| 9 | The imprisonment was , in fact , to last for six years , a period which Louis-Napoleon later called his ‘ university years ’ , and which he put to good use by both studying and publishing . |
| 10 | It was to last for nine hours , spreading from the Olympic Stadium into the streets , houses and offices of Charlottenburg , before the riot police , with their armoured vehicles and water cannons , brought the whole thing under control . |
| 11 | ( IRAS , incidentally , is now expected to last for 11 months , until Boxing Day , with a 2 per cent chance of surviving into 1984 . ) |
| 12 | The 1991 exercise , which was due to involve 140,000 troops and to last for 10 days starting on March 11 , was the smallest to be held . |
| 13 | The first stage being the establishment , the next stage being penetration , the third stage being damage , what actually produces the damage in the disease , and the fourth stage is , if the disease is going to last for any period of time the ability of the organism to persist . |
| 14 | Whatever type of path you intend to lay , you will have to give it a proper foundation if it is to last for any length of time . |
| 15 | Known oil reserves are enough to last for 40 years , natural gas for over 65 years and coal for 250 years . |
| 16 | Finally , the ECSC Treaty of Paris , designated to last for 50 years , was signed by representatives of the six states on 18 April 1951 . |
| 17 | In fact , immediately upon accepting the Treaty of Rome , the Benelux states agreed in substance in February 1959 to a new treaty of economic union , beginning in January 1960 and to last for 50 years , several years ahead of the Rome programme . |
| 18 | It was to last for some months yet . |
| 19 | It states that sex is not appropriate in every situation where a couple are mutually attracted , or even within a relationship that is expected to last for some months or even years . |
| 20 | There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years . |
| 21 | The pause was to last for three years . |
| 22 | Mr Goldring told the jury on the second day of the trial , which is expected to last for three months , that Bradley had been put on an intravenous drip but in the early hours of the next morning he shouted out , complaining of pain around the drip site . |
| 23 | The hearing is expected to last for three days . |
| 24 | This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing . |
| 25 | The cacophony within the house seemed to last for several minutes , but was perhaps only of seconds ' duration . |
| 26 | The witnesses would say later that the searingly brilliant white flash seemed to last for several seconds . |
| 27 | The press apparently had expected Steffi 's invincible reign to last for several years — when last year Graf had a bad year ( by her standards ) the men and women of the press understandably searched for reasons for it — and voiced them . |
| 28 | And taking enough food to last for several days in case the boat was held up by gales . |
| 29 | Since the war , the speeches have tended to last between 90 minutes and two and a half hours . |
| 30 | Negotiations are likely to last into next month . |