Sentence examples for lasting for nearly from inspiring English sources

I will always remember the magical sight in 1972 of the orange Valley Curtain suspended between two hills against a background of grayish peaks in Rifle, Colo., lasting for nearly a day before the wind destroyed it.

Lasting for nearly 90 seconds, it knocked out electricity, water, and telephone services in a wide stretch of the country, and damaged the Santiago airport terminal, some 325 kilometres from the epicentre.

The results presented in this study, together with those from previous investigations in different domains of the IMSZ and TNCO suggest major Paleoproterozoic arc magmatic events in the NCC lasting for nearly 600 million years associated with the final assembly of the crustal blocks into a coherent craton.

[sic]" After a legal dispute lasting for nearly a year, Apple settled out of court, paying Traya's legal fees and giving him a 'token payment' in exchange for the domain name.

Our present case confirms the relative usefulness of imatinib in advanced chordoma (disease control lasting for nearly two years).

One main weakness of the study was the long inclusion period of the women lasting for nearly 6 years, partly through the strict inclusion criteria.

The game lasted for nearly 20 minutes.

The meeting, scheduled for one hour, lasts for nearly three.

Our affair had lasted for nearly a decade.

Aliy Zirkle said the incident lasted for nearly two hours.

created a historically unprecedented situation, which lasted for nearly a century," he writes.