Example sentences of "would last for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrissey 's songwriting still stemmed from the angle of poverty and this early repertoire would last for eighteen months of success . |
| 2 | She found ‘ a kind of peace that would last for whole half-days at a time without that sinking feeling ’ . |
| 3 | Kuwait 's Ministry of Power and Water last week estimated that water supplies would last for 12 days if the slick reached desalination inlets , or for a month if the population was rationed to 4 litres per person per day . |
| 4 | In agreeing the format of the talks on May 9 , both sides agreed that they should be completed " as quickly as possible " , although no deadline was agreed and many observers predicted that they would last for several months . |
| 5 | Such substantial stratospheric ozone depletion would last for several years and the initial survivors of a nuclear war would have to face a great increase in biologically active UV-B radiation . |
| 6 | The path would last for forty-odd years , and seeing it being transformed was immensely satisfying . |
| 7 | The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again . |