Mr. Mitchell had an excuse for losing -- the steel strike lasted much longer than he anticipated.

This operation was started at 5:00 p.m. and lasted for 29 minutes.

If the wedding party lasted late, and the travel schedule means there are only a few hours before resuming the trip or making an early start, the husband may forestall tensions and uncertainties by confiding to his bride that lying in each other's arms will be bliss enough for these few hours.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

At the end of the program, indeed, there was a demonstration that lasted for forty-five minutes, and nothing could stop it.

The liaison lasted for 18 years.

The connection of the lesser lay abbots with the abbeys, especially in the south of France, lasted longer ; and certain feudal families retained the title of abbes chevaliers ( abbates milltes ) for centuries, together with certain rights over the abbey lands or revenues.

The reign of Ahmed III, which had lasted for twenty-seven years, although marked by the disasters of the Great Turkish War, was not unsuccessful.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

Abu Bakr's Caliphate lasted for a little over two years ( or 27 months ), ending with his death after an illness.

The burn to alter the CSM ’ s orbit to that desired for the sub-satellite had been cancelled ; as a result, the sub-satellite lasted half of its anticipated lifetime.

The Atlanta Falcons hold the record among all major American sports leagues for the longest streak of seasons without consecutive winning seasons, a streak that lasted from 1966 – 2008.

The British thus gained a respite, and peace lasted at least until the time Gildas was writing: that is, for perhaps forty or fifty years, from around the end of the 5th century until midway through the sixth.

This began a fierce contest for power between Dost Mohammad's sons, which lasted for nearly five years.

Mahmud Shah's first reign lasted for only two years before he was replaced by Shuja Shah.

The shooting for Army of Darkness began in mid-1991, and it lasted for about 100 days.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

Athanasius was once more compelled to seek safety from his persecutors in concealment ( October 365 ), which lasted, however, only for four months.

* Contestado War ( 1912-1916 ): Was a guerrilla war for land between settlers and landowners, the latter supported by the Brazilian state's police and military forces, that lasted from October 1912 to August 1916.

Fighting lasted for only 14 days, from 14 to 28 November.

The siege lasted for 39 days and nine militants and the church's bellringer were killed.

Levine was best noted for his work on TV shows such as Cheers and M * A * S * H, but only lasted one season in the Orioles broadcast booth.

The agreement lasted from 1977 to 1978, but proved mostly fruitless, for two reasons: the Liberals ' key demand of proportional representation was rejected by most Labour MPs, whilst the contacts between Liberal spokespersons and Labour ministers often proved detrimental, such as between finance spokesperson John Pardoe and Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey, who were mutually antagonistic.

But her personality was such that each affair lasted only until that lover, too, had been conquered and reduced to passivity.

It only lasted until 431 BC, when the Peloponnesian War broke out.

In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.

The first and most prominent professional clubs of the NABBP era were the Cincinnati Red Stockings in Ohio, which lasted only two years.

The peak of tuberculosis incidence is in adolescence and early adulthood, and the MRC trial showed efficacy lasted only 15 years at most.

The lighting of bonfires on Beltane Eve seems to have lasted to the present day only in County Limerick, especially in Limerick itself, and in Arklow, County Wicklow.

Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his death in an airplane crash, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as " the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll.

Sadly the engagement lasted only one month when Warne died of leukemia at age thirty-seven.

The series was well liked, but it only lasted one season.

When Haydn and Mozart began composing, symphonies were played as single movements — before, between, or as interludes within other works — and many of them lasted only ten or twelve minutes ; instrumental groups had varying standards of playing, and the continuo was a central part of music-making.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

The dominance of fungal species lasted only a few years while the atmosphere cleared and there was plenty of organic matter to feed on.

Although his term lasted only six months instead of twelve ( except for the Dictatorships of Sulla and Caesar ), all other magistrates reported to the dictator ( except for the tribunes of the plebs-although they could not veto any of the dictator's acts ), granting the dictator absolute authority in both civil and military matters throughout the Republic.

The name lasted only three years.

This rule only lasted one year.

In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day.

However, Harare's epochal CHOGM was the last to last a week ; the 1993 CHOGM lasted for five days, and the contentious 1995 CHOGM for only three-and-a-half, setting a precedent that has lasted since.

The Tief government, though, lasted for only 5 days, as Estonia was again occupied by the Soviet Union.

Louis's tenure as Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony lasted only few days.