Example sentences of "lasts for [num] " in BNC.

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1 I went this year , during the town 's autumn festival , which always starts on the last Friday of August and lasts for 10 days .
2 Effectively , and in a commercial sense , the right lasts for 10 years with the owner being given a five-year breathing space within which to bring articles made to the design to the market place .
3 Membership lasts for one full year from the date you join .
4 Shingles usually lasts for 2–3 weeks .
5 As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made .
6 Copyright in a work lasts for fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which its author or composer dies .
7 Each walk is on a different theme and lasts for 1½–2 hrs and covers approximately 1½–3 miles .
8 The course lasts for eight weeks and also involves regular discussion periods where the young people re-evaluate their lives .
9 Two separate advertisements will run during the campaign which lasts for eight months , the first between May & August with the second between September and December .
10 The right to reimbursement is subject to the Limitation Act and thus lasts for six years from the date of payment .
11 The 10 to 15 minute treatment which costs £450 lasts for six months .
12 This order lasts for six months initially , and the person can appeal to a Mental Health Tribunal .
13 Osmone I is available as a small impregnated cassette which lasts for six months .
14 Low-income entitlement lasts for six months .
15 This colourant falls between a semi-permanent , which lasts for six to eight washes , and a permanent , which does n't fade at all .
16 The only good thing about it is that it lasts for six months , then immunity is acquired . ’
17 In England , therefore , university starts at the age of 16 and lasts for five years .
18 The exercise lasts for five days .
19 Probably you know that , under the Parliament Act , Parliament lasts for five years unless sooner dissolved by the Crown , and that the Crown acts on the advice of the Government of the day .
20 This is a truly disgusting sensation which lasts for 1 turn .
21 Winter lasts for nine months of the year , when temperatures can fall as low as - 50 ° C , and conditions are made worse by the deadly wind-chill created by high winds .
22 This Diploma course lasts for nine months ( October–July ) .
23 A frequency measure of , say , four times a week gives a misleading impression of the severity of the problem if each tantrum lasts for four hours .
24 Assume that a unit buys a minibus for 10,000 that lasts for four years and at the end of Year 4 is worthless .
25 Each session lasts for four hours ( in two blocks of two hours each ) .
26 The adults live for a few weeks , but the " juvenile " stage ( technically " nymphs " rather than larvae ) lasts for 13 years ( in some varieties ) or 17 years ( in other varieties ) .
27 Family credit lasts for 26 weeks at a time , then you will have to reapply .
28 Family credit lasts for 26 weeks at a time , then you will have to reapply .
29 Family credit lasts for 26 weeks at a time , then you will have to reapply .
30 The right lasts for 5 years initially from the date of registration but may be renewed in 5 year stages up to a maximum of 25 years .
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