1.   Battles are waged through scented magazine advertisements, and the score depends on how long a perfume survives.

2.   Fifty dollars buys a slave, so it really does not matter how long they survive before their bodies are thrown into some river.

3.   In the long run, however, one has to wonder how long Carlesimo can survive.

4.   So far, civil servants are keeping their promises to avoid corruption, although it is difficult to know how long they will survive without pay.

5.   They dunked prisoners in freezing water to see how long they could survive.

6.   But Chernomyrdin had survived so long that many people saw him as untouchable.

7.   Hansen said it was impossible to say how long they might survive in the frigid waters.

8.   Hansen said it was impossible to say how long they might survive in the very cold waters.

9.   You put the mouse in the jar and wait to see how long it can survive.