1.   Strikes that are more likely to attract supplementary benefit are those involving large numbers, which last long and which are official.

2.   The only minor consolation was that prices had fallen just after the war, though that situation was not to last long.

3.   All farmers try to grow crops that resist disease and last long enough to arrive safely at the market.

4.   But the disruption is unlikely to last long.

5.   Clearly, Sampras is undertrained, physically and tactically, to last long among the dirtkickers.

6.   Congress is chock-a-block with individual egos and responsibilities, and the euphoric era of robot-like dedication to Emperor Gingrich cannot last long, even among Republicans.

7.   Even so, none of this is likely to last long.

8.   Other still lifes were occasionally too precariously balanced to last long.

9.   That is not likely to last long.

10.   The euphoria of May Day is unlikely to last long, though.