The characters who "died" were chosen in advance, some based on their birth month, and had to stay dead for the battle's duration, sometimes as long as an hour.
Allied aircraft bombed tanks guarding bridges around Basra and American marines captured the airport outside Basra after a battle of unclear duration.
When allies are used in a Drive, they are temporarily removed from battle for its duration.
Zoroaster saw the phenomenal world as a battlefield between a bad god and a good one and saw time as the duration of this battle.
Its scale, intensity, and sheer brutality of the scene is punctuated by the short duration of the battle, giving the audience just enough without over-egging the proverbial cake.
Once a Djinni on Standby has been used for a Summon Sequence, it takes a number of turns recovering before it restores itself to Set position on a character, but a subsequent increase in the affinity of the element of the attack is bolstered on the character for the duration of the battle.
Given the duration and scale of the battle, however, this may be an underestimate.
One bomb or missile was dropped on Raqqa every 12 minutes, on average, for the duration of the four-month battle.
The battle was notably intense but of short duration, lasting ten to fifteen minutes, in which time 252 men were killed or wounded.
The album's 14 tracks cover a duration of 46 39 and cover battle music from SaGa 2, Romancing SaGa 1, 2, and 3, SaGa Frontier, and Romancing SaGa Minstrel Song.
He will survive the battle, although he will be imprisoned for the duration of the war.
