Which is longer?

[Stinky The Clown]

Obviously we're somewhere on the continuum between a last one a new one, so which is longer?

[liberal N proud]

1. Turned the corner

I don't know how many corners the regime claims to have turned in the "war on terra"

[Mass]

2. After he fell from the brink of war, he suffered the last throes of the

insurgency.

What is longer: the fall or the suffering after the fall. In this case, probably the throes.

[Sparkly]

3. The "brinks" of these wars have been going on for years now...

Whereas "throes" are referred to as "LAST throes"...

So I voted for "brink," although it's hard to know how long each previous throe lasted before we got into the "last" ones.