The march through central Lima lasted several hours and included workers, Aymara and Quechua Indians, peasants and students. |
But the traffic tailbacks and jams, which stretched right back into York, lasted well into the rush hour. |
He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted. |
His reckless gamble lasted but a Hundred Days, culminating in Waterloo and his second abdication. |
Smith, the son of a war bride whose marriage to a Canadian paratrooper lasted only two years, was brought up on an estate in Acton, west London. |
The relationship lasted almost ten years, until the pair worked together in an acclaimed production of Hamlet. |