Example sentences of "lasting only " in BNC.
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| 1 | These results do not require us to dispense with the idea of an internal body clock , if only because they appear very rarely in experiments lasting only a week or so . |
| 2 | LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly gave up the game this year after long-lasting viral problems , unexpectedly reclaimed the British national title at Newcastle yesterday by beating Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting only 43 minutes . |
| 3 | Lasting only seven minutes , the meeting approved without any questions the deal which sees MTM president Mr Price , who received £63million for his MTM shares when TVS bought the company , leave without compensation . |
| 4 | Lasting only seven minutes , the meeting approved without any questions the deal which sees MTM president Mr Price , who received £63million for his MTM shares when TVS bought the company , leave without compensation . |
| 5 | Unfortunately improvement was short-lived , lasting only a few weeks in those with more severe forms of the disease . |
| 6 | The Soviet work described in this historic talk concentrated on high-power pinch discharges lasting only a few microseconds with currents of up to two million amps flowing between electrodes in straight tubes . |
| 7 | Though lasting only some eight minutes , these unpretentious , vivacious pieces are welcome as a first-ever recording . |
| 8 | He told the Street 's fan magazine that the soap was envisaged as lasting only 13 episodes — of which Warren wrote 12 — and with quite a different name . |
| 9 | Now it was Ferreira 's turn to show his frustration , often slamming his racket to the ground in anger as he could only muster 11 points in a set lasting only 20 minutes . |
| 10 | However , many of them show random variations in brightness lasting only a few months or , on occasion , days . |
| 11 | In a literary career lasting only some twelve years , he poured out a steady stream of sermons , pamphlets and books , some under his own name , some with symbolic pseudonyms . |
| 12 | Strong tetanic stimulation , which evoked large NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic currents , produced Ca 2+ transients lasting only a few seconds . |
| 13 | But Rheims closed its gates to him ; its Captain , Gauchier de Châtillon , conducted an effective defence , and on 11 January 1360 , after a siege lasting only five weeks , Edward withdrew . |
| 14 | The evidence , however , is slim , and the logical conclusion — the two-second or five-second commercial — seems far away ; while so-called ‘ subliminal ’ advertising , using flashes of picture or words lasting only fractions of a second , is not only totally unproven as a technique , but banned in most countries where advertising on film is available . |
| 15 | Some bats can send out a stream of two hundred clicks in a single second , each lasting only a thousandth of a second and spaced sufficiently from the other to allow each echo to be heard . |
| 16 | Most of the registered unemployed are unlikely to be interested in temporary jobs lasting only a few days . |
| 17 | e ) Sudden changes of pressure in the ears when clearing them , either on ascent or descent , can produce in susceptible pilots a strong feeling of disorientation , usually lasting only a few seconds . |
| 18 | Women , however , put the number at 7.2 times lasting only 25 minutes each time . |
| 19 | Women , however , put the number at 7.2 times lasting only 25 minutes each time . |