The word "lasts" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a verb to mean "continue for a period of time" or "persist over time", as in "The hot summer days will last until autumn arrives." You can also use it as a noun to mean "the longest or final part of something", as in "The last major hurdle of the race was the longest, but she pushed through to the finish line."
Enjoy it while it lasts, Bobby, but you'll never do it again.
Whether the establishment pushback lasts is an open question.
The fireballs, which are made from a mix of things like coal, old jumpers and fir cones, all soaked in paraffin, are ignited just before midnight and the hair-singeing event lasts around 20 minutes.
The only important variable is when that moment comes; I'm betting that Rand hopes it lasts until sometime in the fall of 2015.
"By the time it aired last summer, we had been working on it for two and a half years, and it lasts for 10 weeks and then it's gone," Cantwell says.
It's meant to signify the company's intention to build something that lasts far longer than any of the people within it now, whatever happens with its financial structure (for example, going public) or management team.
I'll have lots of time but a limited budget.' The budget: £500 for as long as it lasts The solution: Vincent Dedecker from Rail Europe: 'An InterRail trip (interrailnet.com) is a great way to see Europe, meet people and immerse yourself in new cultures, as well as being a green way to travel.
Or perhaps it is that more than most teams they remember all too well that a football match lasts at least 90 minutes.
You go through pain but you get to the end, and that lasts: it makes it all worthwhile.
We have been preparing for such moments for more than a century, since that July morning in 1897, at the height of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, when readers of the Times found on its leader page Rudyard Kipling's admonitory poem Recessional, which called for British humility and God's mercy in the light of the fact that no empire lasts for ever.
Usually, that requires them to get the first goal and kill the game off while their energy lasts.
