Sentence examples for making it last for from inspiring English sources

After the vote, President Obama urged Mr. Boehner and House Republicans to put politics aside and extend the tax cut for two months while negotiators work on making it last for a full year.

They're conserving it and making it last for three years.

"Repairing the present trail at a minimal amount of work will make it last for a long time".

He never wrote the proposed sequel to the The Social Contract, in which he meant to deal with international politics, but he declared that existing governments lived in a state of nature, that their obsession with conquest was imbecilic, and that "if we could realize a European republic for one day, it would be enough to make it last for ever".

What do you think has made it last for 38 years?

I know I'll be downloading these — my Zune HD is still going strong, and I plan to make it last for at least a couple more years.

Make it last for 29 years so you suffer and die".

It's harder than people realize to earn a lump sum of money and then make it last for several months.

In the Hanukah story, the Maccabees have oil only enough for one day and are miraculously able to make it last for eight days.

(Changing pitch makes a note higher or lower, while changing velocity makes it last for a longer or shorter period).

The cool temperature in your freezer will slow the rate of reaction in the glowstick and make it last for 4-5 days instead of one or two.