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

His episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ), of which over 17 were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman emperors.

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.

He also managed to score in every British Home Championship tournament he played in except 1963 in an association with the tournament which lasted from 1958 to 1970 and included 16 goals and ten tournament victories ( five shared ).

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.

Emperor Sushun's reign lasted for five years before his death at the age of 72.

Conflict broke out between the French and the indigenous islanders in November 1649 and fighting lasted for five years until 1654, when the last opposition to the French on Grenada was crushed-although the island continued for some time after to suffer raids by war canoe parties from St. Vincent, who had aided the local Grenadan islanders in their struggle and continued to oppose the French.

Another TV show, Tell It To Groucho, premiered January 11, 1962 on CBS, but only lasted five months.

In 1952 this culminated in the disastrous Great Smog of 1952 which lasted for five days and killed over 4, 000 people.

* 1998 – A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants ( the strike lasted seven weeks ).

Lithuania's close association with Poland had thus begun, and lasted, in one form or another, for nearly five centuries.

The original series ( four or five books a year ) lasted from 1949 to 1963, until the death of Jean Bruce, and was continued by his wife and children until 1992.

Two later attempts represented the enthusiasm of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi ; these were the Federation of Arab Republics which lasted five years and the Arab Islamic Republic which never emerged in practice.

The German rule lasted only five years.

She was married to Zaki Fateen Abdel-Wahab in 1981, the son of Fateen Abdel-Wahab ( film director ) and Leila Mourad ; this marriage lasted only five months.

The previous year he and his wife made a journey on the Continent that lasted five and a half months and took them through Brussels, Germany, and Italy.

All of these events created a depression that lasted five years in the United States, ruined thousands of businesses, depressed daily wages by 25 % from 1873 to 1876, and brought the unemployment rate up to 14 %.

The magazine was not a success and only lasted five issues.

Roman control of Gaul lasted for five centuries, until the last Roman rump state, the Domain of Soissons, fell to the Franks in AD 486.

The Socialist Party ( PS ), joined by other parties on the left, soundly defeated Chirac's conservative allies, forcing Chirac into a new period of cohabitation with Jospin as prime minister ( 1997 – 2002 ), which lasted five years.

The Duar War ( 1864 – 65 ) lasted only five months and, despite some battlefield victories by Bhutanese forces, resulted in Bhutan's defeat, loss of part of its sovereign territory, and forced cession of formerly occupied territories.

On Christmas Day 1985, tensions with Mali over the mineral-rich Agacher Strip erupted in a war that lasted five days and killed about 100 people.

Some critics, such as Lawrence Groble, surmise that his relationship with his mother may have been the cause for why he married five times, and why few of his relationships lasted.

The city passed under the control of the House of Savoy in 1713, a reign which lasted only five years, being replaced by the Habsburg Empire ( for 16 years ) followed by the Bourbons.

The liaison lasted for 18 years.

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.

The Empire of Akkad collapsed in 2154 BC, within 180 years of its founding, ushering in a period of regional decline that lasted until the rise of the Third Dynasty of Ur in 2112 BC.

Around 1035, the Lamtuna chieftain Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Tifat ( alias Tarsina ), tried to reunite the Sanhaja desert tribes, but his reign lasted less than three years.

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

Due to problems over financing and a change of site, the Viipuri Library project lasted eight years, and during that same time he also designed the Turun Sanomat Building ( 1929 – 30 ) and Paimio Sanatorium ( 1929 – 33 ).

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.

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

Mahmud's second reign lasted nine years.

The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso and established an empire that lasted more than 800 years.

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

The later usage was in part attributed to the choices of gold, silver and bronze to represent the first three Ages of Man in Greek mythology: the Golden Age, when men lived among the gods ; the Silver age, where youth lasted a hundred years ; and the Bronze Age, the era of heroes, and was first adopted at the 1904 Summer Olympics.

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

The Babylonian exile lasted approximately 48 years, from 586 to 538 BCE, and ended with the conquest of Babylon in that year by the Persians.

Holly influenced many other singers during and after a career that lasted barely two years.

Assyria lasted a few more years after the loss of its fortress, but attempts by Egyptian Pharaoh Neco II to rally the Assyrians failed due to opposition from king Josiah of Judah, and it seemed to be all over by 609 BC.

The ensuing Siege of Malta lasted for two years before the defenders were finally starved into surrender.

His residence in Leuven lasted seven years.

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.

Before 2000, arguments that the Deccan Traps flood basalts caused the extinction were usually linked to the view that the extinction was gradual, as the flood basalt events were thought to have started around 68 Ma and lasted for over 2 million years.