The earliest polio shot, for example, was superseded by an oral vaccine, which was easier to administer and lasted longer.
New York's last real-estate boom began later than the bubble in the rest of the country, and lasted longer, until 2008, kept aloft by Wall Street bonuses.
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"They are guys who seem always to have gotten more out of their game then you might think, and have lasted longer than you might think, " he said.
"That tailwind helped New York, too - but then the New York reductions lasted longer and were twice as big, " says Zimmering.
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But it reflects, too, a sense of shame, much of it derived from slavery, which lasted longer and involved larger numbers in Brazil than anywhere else.
They had my Gram's meds set up and organized for five days of doses, prescriptions written up in case the evacuation lasted longer, medical and treatment schedules written up like my Gram's dialysis schedule, and clothing and other personal belongings packed.
She said the nursing home staff had packed her grandmother's things, along with her dialysis schedule, a five-day supply of her medicines and new prescriptions in case the evacuation lasted longer than that.
The United States Football League, the World Football League, the World Hockey Association, and the American Basketball Association all lasted far longer than the XFL, despite the fact that none had network television contracts in their first seasons.
You need to be able to show the retailer that your iron should have lasted longer than it did, and that some fault in the manufacture has caused it to break down.
And, naturally, the media blathered on about it all day and night, far longer than the earthquake actually lasted.
Elswhere, fifth seed Soderling was in action for only one hour 11 minutes in his 6-0 6-1 6-1 crushing of the hapless Taylor Dent and, in a match that lasted only eight minutes longer, Tsonga thrashed fellow Frenchman Josselin Ouanna 6-0 6-1 6-4 .
Opponents of modern architecture may scoff that Sir Christopher Wren and Filippo Brunelleschi tended to make buildings that lasted a little longer than 60 years.
All of these examples lasted longer than the current war on terror and its extension in Iraq, which hopefully will not obtain the distinction of becoming America's longest war.
And news reports are practically becoming blips: only 20% of stories lasted longer than a minute, while half took less than 30 seconds.
The trial lasted 10 weeks (longer than the Raj Rajaratnam trial) and jury deliberations took over 2 weeks before the guilty verdict.
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The 13-year age gap between rocker Chris Robinson, 34, and his young actress wife (and daughter of Goldie Hawn) Kate Hudson, 21, managed to produce one of the longer marriages in the club: They lasted six years and have one son together, Ryder.
This religious revival may prove to be no deeper and no longer-lasting then the Christian revival in Victorian England (though that lasted two-thirds of a century, and helped to build a British empire).
See, I think what we're seeing is because - you know, we have the war in Iraq, which has now lasted longer than World War II - because of hurricane Katrina, it's becoming harder and harder for professional athletes to live in figurative and literal gated communities.
Engagements traditionally lasted no longer than six months, according to Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University and chief scientific advisor of Chemistry.com, and they were at one point viewed as pit stops on the way to marriage.
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