While biographers regard the marriage with varying appraisals of partnership, love, politics and competition, it lasted 48 years.

According to Pliny, the competition lasted for 24 hours and Messalina won with a score of 25 partners.

This kind of competition has to be checked ; there is no historical instance of its having lasted long without being modified either by combination or legislation, or both.

By then, Berle and his audience had probably burned out on each other, and Buick had even dropped sponsorship of the show at the beginning of the 1955 – 1956 season ( opting to sponsor Jackie Gleason's half-hour filmed edition of The Honeymooners ), after ratings fell dramatically during the 1954 – 1955 as well ( the higher ratings of his 1955 – 56 competition, The Phil Silvers Show on CBS, didn't help Berle, either ); though Berle would remain one of the nation's beloved entertainers, overall, the show that made him a superstar was clearly spent for steam and fresh ideas, and two subsequent attempts at television comebacks hosting his own show lasted barely a year each.

The U. S. advantage lasted about two decades, during which the U. S. steel industry operated with little foreign competition.

Theatrical performances lasted eight consecutive hours and were performed as part of a competition in which a jury proclaimed a winner.

Therefore First Division eventually became a competition with 22 teams, which lasted for two years.

The program faced stiff competition on Wednesday evenings from NBC's Wagon Train and only lasted one season.

The debut of Nitro began the Monday Night Wars, a ratings battle between the WWF and WCW that lasted for almost six years and saw each company resort to cutthroat tactics to try to one-up the competition.

The competition lasted a decade there before returning to the Parc des Princes in 1938.

The merged club lasted only until 2002 when it split again, with the Bears returning, but this time in the NSWRL competition the second-tier rugby league competition, where they continue to play today.

This lasted until the competition was abandoned in favour of the new Twenty20 Cup after the 2002 season, and the Minor Counties did not figure in this set-up.

It was clearly in competition with the town further south, Queenstown, and while the silver boom lasted it was known as the Silver City.

Disgruntled Novocastrians formed a breakaway competition, which lasted until 1919.

Due to time constraints, saturation and club pressure, the competition only lasted four years, being cancelled in 1986.

The ' small ' EuroGames in Utrecht in 2005 had almost 3, 000 participants, nine competition sports and lasted three days, making them the biggest ' small ' Games ever.

This arrangement lasted until the 1901-02, when the top clubs from each league resigned and formed a single new competition.

This competition lasted until 1991.

The competition lasted until 1950.

This type lasted until the mid-1950s, when Marbach recognized, and began breeding a lighter, more athletic horse for modern competition.

Reconstruction of City Hall lasted from 1873 through 1892 ( 19 years ) and was directed by architects Théodore Ballu and Édouard Deperthes, who had won the public competition for the building's reconstruction.

In order to train effectively for tennis, Coates began weightlifting at 15, and during that same year, she entered her first tennis competition in 1984, where she lasted until the finals.

This was particularly true in the world arena, which was an anarchical battleground characterized by strife and avaricious competition for colonial empires.

But automation and the increasing complexity of factories has renewed the competition for jobs.

But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises have been arguing for years: an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

This section shall not apply to corporations purchasing such stock solely for investment and not using the same by voting or otherwise to bring about, or in attempting to bring about, the substantial lessening of competition.

and that competition for this share of the market was endangered by the financial relationship between the two concerns: ``

The physical education program for men recognizes the value of participation in competitive sports in the development of the individual student and aims to give every man an opportunity to enter some form of athletic competition, either intercollegiate or intramural.

The Chenoweth brothers were experienced bridge builders, and against the competition of other, and better known, bridge designers and builders they had constructed nine of the covered, wooden bridges on the Parkersburg and Staunton Turnpike a dozen years before, as well as many other bridges for several counties.

If you are up against private brand competition, have you formulated a long-term program for researching and strengthening your market position??

It is accentuated by the need for pre-selling goods, and private label competition.

Are you following competition willy-nilly -- trying to match dollar for dollar -- or are you experimenting with new means for reaching and influencing consumers??

The entry-limiting price will also be raised for potential domestic competition, but unless general inflation permits profit margins to increase proportionately throughout the economy, we might expect the public-limit price to approach the entry-limit price.

Carroll was sharp and military, but he was up against tough competition for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool.

This means the aircraft companies are going to tear into the government market, looking for anything they can get and making the competition tough.

Auto racing ( also known as automobile racing or car racing ) is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition.

The Auction simulates a ' history ' of competition between the descendants of Oberon for player characters who have not had dozens of decades to get to know each other.

Most players bid low amounts between one and ten points in an initial bid in order to feel out the competition and to save points for other uses.

After several days of competition, Odysseus and Ajax are tied for the ownership of the magical armor which was forged on Mount Olympus by the god Hephaestus.

* Academic Sports League, an academic organization set up as round one competition for the USAD in Erie, PA

The AFL is the List of sports attendance figures # Top 10 in average attendance | most attended national competition in Australia and the only fully professional league for Australian football in the world.

The Barbershop Harmony Society provides a highly organized competition structure for a cappella quartets and choruses singing in the barbershop style.