Sentence examples for lasted close from inspiring English sources

The ink lasted close to a decade.

Mr. Maltz said the operation had lasted close to a year.

"Hadrian" was Yourcenar's first big success — it made her famous — and the momentum she generated for it lasted close to twenty years.

Roth was living in London at the time, and he and Geng worked on the book long-distance, in sessions that sometimes lasted close to an hour.

During an eve-of-election interview with the Guardian that lasted close to two hours, Arpaio, 83, reflected on how he had been thrust to the centre of both the Republican and Democratic races, and toyed for the first time with the possibility of a role in a Trump administration.

After the cheap loss of Alex Gidman on his Worcesterhsire debut, Tom Kohler-Cadmore Kohler-Cadmore and Ben Coxt the crease lasted close to Fell hours before being removed by a stunning legside take from Andrew Hodd, the best of the stand-in Yorkshire wicketkeeper's timee catches.

The WWF's official time for the match is nine seconds, although the match actually lasted closer to 24 seconds.

Lasting close to an hour and populated only sparsely with words, by Frank O'Hara, it's a work that is rarely performed.

U.S. gross domestic product will continue to contract throughout 2009 for a cumulative output loss of 5% and a recession that will last close to two years.

With the excellent Stamina mode enabled I suspect it would last closer to four days between charges.

I found that it lasts closer to five days then a full week.