Sentence examples for had only lasted from inspiring English sources

It had only lasted for a while.

It said that the scald tank incident was isolated, had only lasted one day, and tests have confirmed that bacteria counts were acceptable.

I wonder how many people standing on the embankment had wished the actual Queen's Jubilee Thames pageant had only lasted 90 seconds, like this film by ITN video-journalist Ben Begley.

At that stage Hamilton seemed unlikely to make the podium, as his second set of the more durable soft tyres had only lasted 16 laps, and when he made the mandatory switch to a set of supersofts on the 42nd lap he faced a  Herculean task to make them last 23.

'A lot of people who had lived here before had only lasted three or four years and at that point I thought I bloody well knew why.' The old days when she lived in Walthamstow and dressed in Nicole Farhi seemed a lifetime away.

The outage was resolved by the time the account had responded, meaning it had only lasted a couple of hours.

The entire passage of arms must have only lasted about 20 seconds.

Some new officers have only lasted a shift before quitting when they realise what it's like.

They may have only lasted one season, but they managed to deliver one of the more horrible kits in Australian sporting history.

Their friendship has only lasted a matter of days before it's time for her to leave and take her husband home.

The affair of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen in the late 1960s may have only lasted a few months, but its resonance in the songs of these two Canadians — especially in Ms. Mitchell's lyrics — is far reaching.