Example sentences of "last [prep] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It can thus invest on the assumption that the contract will not last for merely a year .
2 For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years .
3 But er long before our time a a wedding in a district like this would last for about a week .
4 They should last at least a week .
5 He switched on the radio and learned that temperatures of minus 6 were expected tonight ; the forecaster believed they were due for a ‘ cold snap ’ which could last at least a week .
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