Preposition: about

• hour: Workshops are for 30 participants aged eight and up and last about an hour and a half.

Object

• minute: The needles were warmed with the Chinese herb, Moxa, and each treatment lasted about 30 minutes.

• hour: Examinations lasting 1¼ hours are sat on each module at the end of the Lower Sixth.

• month: Farmers had expected the process to last 12 months.

• week: Each scheme lasts 10 weeks, places are extremely limited and subject to a selection process.

• year: The course in those days lasted two years 2, the men taking Schools in 1934 were not included in the photo.

Modifies a noun

• year: Last year we raised over £ 2,500 for the Tsunami appeal.

• week: Last week, the show played to less than 40 percent capacity.

• night: Last night 's gig wasn't them at their best.

• month: Last month the Welsh Assembly voted for a public inquiry into the service, which has been told to make savings of £ 10m.

• season: The failure to achieve top six status last season probably cost the Club up to £ 600k in lost income from all sources.

• decade: The last decade of Swift's life was not happy.

Used with adjective complement

• do: Evidently, the system was not a success, for it did not last beyond 1966.

• finish: I worked and reworked many times over, but it was mostly finished last April.

• come: I don't understand it because normally r = s, an adverbial adjunct comes last in a sentence.

Adjective complement

• less: When the Department of Employment compiles strike figures it excludes action which lasts less than 24 hours and involve less than ten workers.

Preposition: for

• hour: Plus Points - Proven to last for 12 hours.

• month: The discontented minority resorted to a boycott, lasting for months.

• week: The consultation period will last for six weeks from Monday 19th June 2006 to Monday 31st July 2006.

• decade: The conflict, which has lasted for two decades, has left the south in ruins.