Example sentences of "lasts for " in BNC.
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| 31 | This normally happens only in the summer and lasts for an average of one to five days . |
| 32 | The sale lasts for about two weeks . |
| 33 | Sale starts Wednesday , December 23 and lasts for about three weeks . |
| 34 | The Woolwich has also launched a 7.99% fixed-rate mortgage , which lasts for three years . |
| 35 | The right to reimbursement is subject to the Limitation Act and thus lasts for six years from the date of payment . |
| 36 | The rush comes on in five minutes , lasts for an hour , and you 're buzzin' and still going for hours . ’ |
| 37 | One of the problems is the initial guarantee often looks attractive but only lasts for a short time . |
| 38 | The 10 to 15 minute treatment which costs £450 lasts for six months . |
| 39 | This produces the bleeding known as menstrual flow , which lasts for anything from 2 to 6 days . |
| 40 | The exercise lasts for five days . |
| 41 | This order lasts for six months initially , and the person can appeal to a Mental Health Tribunal . |
| 42 | The powder lip colour lasts for ages and the top gloss seals the colour , but the great thing about it is that you can use different combinations for different effects . |
| 43 | Application of duration measurements to discrete behaviours is most appropriate where the behaviour in question happens relatively rarely , but each time lasts for several hours . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | Usually this lasts for only a short period if the problem is acknowledged . |
| 46 | And environmentalists have warned that plutonium , the deadliest poison known to man , lasts for at least 25,000 years . |
| 47 | Sky-high costs in places like the US can turn a dream holiday into an costly nightmare that lasts for months after . |
| 48 | But in the UK copyright lasts for 50 years , so they ca n't be sold here . ’ |
| 49 | The walk lasts for three hours and starts from the car park of Middleton Hall , two miles south of Wooler ( ) . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | This stage lasts for a number of years . |
| 52 | The course is suitable for all models — 900 , 910 , 940 , 950/950i , 965 and 270 — and lasts for three days , from Wednesday to Friday , 11–13 November . |
| 53 | Rumour has it this Achtung Baby thang actually lasts for an hour — the assembly is being treated to a full 36 minutes of footage. this either means that a lot of it is rubbish or it 's so blinking brilliant They could n't show the lot lest our brains exploded with pleasure . |
| 54 | The terror lasts for D10 rounds after leaving the Tower . |
| 55 | This is a truly disgusting sensation which lasts for 1 turn . |
| 56 | The effectiveness usually lasts for some weeks , but is variable , depending largely on the amount of new growth being produced , and therefore the rate at which the toxic content is being diluted , and the speed of living — called the metabolic rate — which affects the rate at which the plant is able to break down and divest itself of what after all is a ‘ foreign body ’ . |
| 57 | In this article , by LTP we mean synaptic potentiation , which is both NMDA receptor-dependent and lasts for more than an hour . |
| 58 | The period is 27 years , and the eclipse lasts for a long time ; the last began on 22 July 1982 and did not end until 25 June 1984 , though it was total only for a year ( January 1983 to January 1984 ) . |
| 59 | The evidence of psychoanalysis shows that almost every intimate emotional relation between two people which lasts for some time — marriage , friendship , the relation between parents and children — contains a sediment of feelings of aversion and hostility , which only escapes perception as a result of repression . |
| 60 | Liz always wears foundation or tinted moisturiser , which Yanina applied next , because they help to protect her skin from St Andrews ' bitter East winds : ‘ I love Lancôme 's Maquimat Beige 031 — it 's a bit expensive , but I find it lasts for ages . ’ |