Preposition: about

• minute: Spread over ten exercises lasting about 5 minutes each.

• hour: Outline of syllabus There will be 11 sessions lasting about 3 hours.

Preposition: around

• minute: With each level only lasting around ten minutes is doesn't cause much of a problem.

• month: This could be over one or more waves, each lasting around 3 months.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• create: Literary experimentation has often proved most influential when itâs breaking down barriers, rather than creating anything particularly lasting or even memorable.

Modifies a noun

• impression: The trip also left a lasting impression on Laura Wyn Jones.

• legacy: Find out more about the lasting legacy the 2012 London Games could leave behind.

• friendship: I have met some wonderful people during my holidays over the years, some of them having turned into lasting friendships.

• peace: Tom has to spend a time in exile, away from home, in order to bring about a lasting peace.

• memorial: Char's Fund will be the means by which we will build a lasting memorial to our daughter.

• memento: A drumming soldier would look great in any pageboy's bedroom and a solid pewter tankard is a lasting memento.

Modifying Another Word

• long: A high quality, long lasting, durable alkaline battery.

• longer: Steel is longer lasting, won't potentially leach chemicals into the water and you can boil as little as you want.

• truly: Are we not capable of demonstrating our peaceful intentions by applying all our abilities and our ingenuity to achieving a truly lasting stability?

• ever: Like you get up to heaven and they're like " you didn't know how ever lasting life works?

• usually: They also have volunteer placements in a more ad hoc manner usually lasting between 6-8 weeks.

• only: With each level only lasting around ten minutes is doesn't cause much of a problem.

Used with adjective complement

• scan: The 1mm scan lasted 18 minutes, and each successive scan took less time, with the 6mm scan lasting 3 minutes.

Preposition: for

• minute: Originally broadcast on Radio 4 at 7.30pm, with each episode nominally lasting for 30 minutes.

• year: Harsh taxation caused unrest in Gaul and plague swept into the empire from the east, lasting for years.