The woman had to travel overseas once a month for three or four exhausting days at a stretch.
Like most nannies, though, the virtual babysitter will work for only eight hours or so at a stretch.
Which is not bad, if you don't mind being cooped up in a boat for weeks at a stretch.
Del Negro said Griffin's ankle was as big as a grapefruit limiting him to a few minutes at a stretch.
Reforms may be hammered out in education and immigration and (at a stretch) the environment and the Social Security pension system.
Mostly, it made him sleep sometimes twenty-four hours at a stretch, he said.
Meanwhile, the teams faced an even heavier workload because of new rules limiting how long the residents could work at a stretch.
The company is also pushing another measure, called read length, which is the length of DNA that the machine can read at a stretch.
At a stretch, it is just about imaginable that a good Tory showing in the election would scare Mr Blair off his promised referendum.
So Obuchi had kept in close touch with developments there, staying at his official residence for days at a stretch instead of going home even on weekends.
By late afternoon, I'd fine-tuned my falling-off-a-building sailboard technique to the point where I was bumping along the surface of the lake for minutes at a stretch.
That could, at a stretch, drag things out until next spring, and a British general election (though Gordon Brown can wait until June 2010 if he wants to).
He spends months at a stretch apart from his family and, if he is working illegally, is constantly at risk of being exploited by unscrupulous employers or deported.
"It certainly makes getting out of bed very difficult, " said Fitzgerald, who lives on the mountain eight days at a stretch as a weather observer for the private Mount Washington Observatory.
Simply put, there is no other subset of startups that is, like biotech, called on to deliver such products while surviving, 12 years at a stretch, on infusions of investor capital.
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Maybe, at a stretch, a few tens of tonnes.
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It also highlighted an epidemic of teenage suicides in the United States -- one that has coincided with the immersion of that age group in social media and texting for hours at a stretch.
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"It's frankly embarrassing that when European nations - with almost two million men and women under arms - are only able, at a stretch, to deploy around 100, 000 at any one time, " he said.
But for decades, airlines in America and elsewhere used carefully selected, perfectly groomed young women to persuade their mainly male customers that sitting in cramped aluminium tins for hours at a stretch was a pleasurable experience.
Warren has excelled in the long man's role this season, routinely throwing three to four scoreless innings at a stretch to keep the Yankees in games after their starter has left due to either ineffectiveness or injury.
Scotland might be up for buying new ships, but if the UK has 13 such frigates in mind, an independent Scottish navy is unlikely to be able to afford more than two, perhaps three at a stretch.
There was a sharp rise in grumbling this month as the final business of the presidency was being whipped through the councils, and national representatives found themselves trapped at table for 12 and 13 hours at a stretch.
"I have started bowling 10 or 12 overs at a stretch...but to get fit to join the Indian squad, I should be able to bowl at least 35 overs continuously, which I used to bowl before my injury, " he said.
These unfortunate victims of comparative-advantage madness will never taste the career glories known by the 19-year-old Shenzhen employee of Apple supplier FoxConn who was blessed with the good fortune of working seven nights a week, for 11 hours at a stretch, for about a buck an hour, before he threw himself out a window.
Though Nike committed to fair labor practices more than a decade ago, it still faces problems, including a report by the Associated Press last year that workers for its Converse brand in Indonesia were being slapped by supervisors, forced to stand in the scorching sun for hours at a stretch as punishment for not meeting quotas, and insulted as dogs and pigs by bosses.
Hand it to the Australians: At a rough stretch in globalization's arc, they've turned over the government to a Laborite with an open stance toward the emerging economies.
Given the proposed wording of the rule and the apparent nature of the trade, which seems to have started out as an attempt to hedge risk, that assertion is at best a stretch.
The lowest quintile, meanwhile, faces a mass exodus when looked at over a reasonable stretch of time.
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It is a tawdry, depressing and often confronting scene during the day, but at night the stretch has a raffish and oddly alluring charm, underpinned by neon lights, pumping music and crowds of suburban revellers who gawk and giggle their way between a huge number of bars, pubs and clubs, many of which are open 24 hours.
He showed few signs of rust, however, striking out four in a row at one stretch in his 7 1-3 innings.
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