However,while talking is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate and slow, Over time,writers took advantage of this and started crafting long-winded sentences such as this one:The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till the gradual retreat of the Persians was changed into a disorderly flight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and……" No one talks like that casually — or should

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But the textile boom lasted only several decades.

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It lasted for more than a year, and kicked off the civil-rights movement.

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Formerly it lasted three days, but by the 1980s it more commonly lasted a day and a half.

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