Sentence examples for the proceeds last from inspiring English sources

The beneficiary may, instead, elect to receive the proceeds over a given number of years or in some fixed amount, such as $100 a month, for as long as the proceeds last.

But because sales of the bonds are limited during any particular year and also because developers have no control over when they will actually get the proceeds, last year the Housing Development Corporation introduced a more flexible financing alternative, said to be the first of its kind in the United States.

The theatrics outside — the workers yelled "Shame on you!" and held their noses as Mr. Strauss-Kahn entered the courthouse — far outweighed the legal significance of what happened in the courtroom: The court proceeding lasted only about as long as it takes a world-class runner to run a mile, and there were no substantive developments in the case.

The court proceeding lasted about 45 seconds.

Just after noon on Wednesday, he posted another message, "Out on my patio having my last free moment I love all my fans Pain is love!!!" The courtroom proceeding lasted all of about two minutes, and Ja Rule declined to say anything before Justice Richard D. Carruthers sentenced him to two years in prison.

The entire proceeding lasted just less than nine minutes.

The official proceeding lasted for 39 days and included interviews with witnesses who were officers, civilians and enlisted men.

There's that famous story of Edith Wharton telling Henry James that she bought her big car with the proceeds of her last novel, and him pointing at a wheelbarrow and saying: "I bought this with mine".

By encouraging families to recycle their money in this way, the chancellor is tacitly delaying the onset of what may be an inevitable slide down the ladder for the western middle classes, faking the good times for a little bit longer by stretching out the proceeds of the last boom.

Court commissioner Barry Phillips ordered Heaggan-Brown to go to trial during the proceeding, which lasted less than five minutes.

A phalanx of uniformed marshals formed a human wall between them and the spectators throughout the proceeding, which lasted about 15 minutes.