Descent, for example, lasts more than eight minutes.
Christmas, for example, lasted a full 12 days, during which time you were not allowed to do any work.
Occasionally, someone would feel sufficiently emboldened to make a double album: Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland, for example, lasted 75 minutes.
A bag of maize meal weighing 25 kilograms, about 55 pounds, for example, lasts the average Zambian family about three weeks.
The Kellogg-HKUST EMBA, for example, lasts for 18 months, with students spending two weekends a month living and studying on the Hong Kong campus, interspersed with weekend residences in Illinois.
Microsoft's earlier disruption of a Waledac botnet, for example, lasted only as long as the time it took its creators to modify its architecture slightly to create a new botnet.
"Climate scientists have already suggested there were several around 50 million years ago; one for example, lasted about 170,000 years".
Even though they had small, ape-like brains, we should not feel too superior since one of the earliest genus of hominids, Australopithecus, for example, lasted from 4+ million years ago to 1.4 million years ago, approximately 3 million years.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, for example, lasted 381 days.
