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How many "greats" do you have to add to the word "grandparent" to begin to imagine how long enslavement lasted in the United States?
And I think it lasted because people need to move.
These hearings lasted for almost two months.
The flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet.
But I don't feel that — I still feel that there are some types of women who are not represented that way, and one group that we'll focus on today are teens, because I think teenagers are especially contradictory and still figuring it out, and in the '90s there was "Freaks and Geeks" and "My So-Called Life," and their characters, Lindsay Weir and Angela Chase, I mean, the whole premise of the shows were just them trying to figure themselves out, basically, but those shows only lasted a season each, and I haven't really seen anything like that on TV since.
That lasted for more than a year, and it was the hardest year of my life by far.
Admittedly, his first wife cited in her divorce papers that he once threatened her with a knife and said he always wondered what human flesh tasted like, but people say stupid things to each other in bad marriages in the heat of an argument, and his second marriage has lasted 41 years.
We don't consider that a couple of hundred years ago, they may have been burned at the stake for criticizing the king after a trial that lasted 10 minutes, and indeed, that that would have been repeated over and over again.
And that journey lasted 10 weeks, 72 days.
And I finally bounced through high school, got into the City College of New York with a 78.3 average, which I shouldn't have been allowed in with, and then I started out in engineering, and that only lasted six months.
For example, imagine a passage from Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:" "The whole engagement lasted above twelve hours, till the graduate retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and the Surenas himself."
That thing lasted all of three weeks.
This project has lasted now, been just over two years.
The Higgs field is in a wobbly configuration that has lasted so far but that will eventually collapse.
Very quickly, they found that if you put cement in the bone of the patient before you put the metal shaft in, it actually lasted a lot longer, and most patients would never have to be re-operated on in their lifetime.
It was the feeling all the time like that feeling you have if you're walking and you slip or trip and the ground is rushing up at you, but instead of lasting half a second, the way that does, it lasted for six months.
The campaign lasted a year, and it galvanized the civil rights movement like nothing had before it.
But the trip lasted a few days.
What I've done with it sitting still, going back to it in my head, trying to understand it, finding a place for it in my thinking, that's lasted 24 years already and will probably last a lifetime.
That marriage lasted for a year.
I had 19 dates and each date lasted three minutes.
For example, once I had an affair with calculus that lasted longer than some celebrity marriages.
While Napoléon's empire lasted eight years, its legacy endured far longer.
You see, transits normally only last for a few hours, and this one lasted for almost a week.
Our marathon game only lasted two and a half hours - far shorter and more strategic than most of the games they normally play.
Anatomy was caught in a struggle between science, art and culture that lasted for over 500 years.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the soap opera "One Life to Live" introduced a love story that lasted 25 years.
And like I said, we only gave a tiny amount of the drug, and it lasted for weeks, and that's not like anything you see with antidepressants.
The Hunter-Gatherer Age lasted several million years.
And then the Agricultural Age lasted several thousand years.
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