Sentence examples for but instead of lasting from inspiring English sources

But instead of lasting only a few days and then fading, as acute inflammation usually does, the process can become chronic and create its own problems, causing tissue damage and continuing pain.

Listening to Hinch's debut was like tuning in to one of his radio editorials, but instead of lasting for a few minutes it went on for 47, surely heaven for Hinch.

But instead of lasting a day, they're available for a week.

The movement will essentially be the same as your first slap, but instead of lasting as a quarter note, this note will only be held as an eighth note.

The initial tissue concentration (>50 nM) for 1-hour infusion is similar to that of 3-hour infusion, but the concentration in the plasma, instead of lasting for 8 hours in a 3-hour infusion, rapidly falls below 50 nM in less than 75 minutes for 1-hour infusion and hence reduces the risk of neutropenia.

Instead of lasting 10 years, the start-up lasted only six months.

Instead of lasting up to five hours, as the regular one did, it lasted about an hour.

Later, L.E.D.s that failed in hours or days instead of lasting thousands of hours, as they should.

Instead of lasting for 25 years or more they degrade over a period of months or a few years.

Some critics of the treaty said it might be more acceptable if it had a 10-year time limit instead of lasting indefinitely.

With so many governmental entities to answer to and numbers to account for, there is a tendency among educators to become obsessed with short-term gains in metrics instead of lasting improvements in learning, experts say.