Her influence lasted as the many students from Mary Lyon's schools went out to teach others.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

It was the beginning of a career with the company that lasted about forty years.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

After that, she helped lead a city bus boycott that lasted more than a year.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

But the measure that declared Lake Champlain a Great Lake lasted less than 3 weeks.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

History had shown,he said, that such wars lasted many years and often destroyed both sides.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

The laws also increased bitterness between the North and South that lasted many years.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

The travel ban this past week lasted twice as long in some European countries.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

The radio silence, caused by the heat of re-entry, lasted for seven minutes.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

His life had lasted exactly the seventy years of the American Wild West.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

The North American Soccer League lasted from nineteen sixty-eight to nineteen eighty-four.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

President Polk's "short" war already had lasted for more than a year.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

While their marriage only lasted two years, Lyle Lovett's music lives on.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

The battle between the United States and Mexican forces lasted two days.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

A few became astronauts. The X-15 program lasted about ten years.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Negotiations on this point of the peace treaty lasted for days.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

This famous time in American history only lasted about seventy years.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

But Ida Tarbell's series lasted for one year in the magazine.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Shepard's flight lasted only a few seconds longer than fifteen minutes.

VOA: special.2009.06.17