Del Negro said Griffin's ankle was as big as a grapefruit limiting him to a few minutes at a stretch.
Which is not bad, if you don't mind being cooped up in a boat for weeks 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.
The woman had to travel overseas once a month for three or four exhausting days at a stretch.
The lowest quintile, meanwhile, faces a mass exodus when looked at over a reasonable stretch of time.
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Like most nannies, though, the virtual babysitter will work for only eight hours or so at a stretch.
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.
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.
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.
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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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.
"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.
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.
What may have been typical Japanese expressions of diffidence and unease with forthright action may have allowed this Chinese interpretation, even if it was a stretch at the time.
Jones' header from a free-kick had Cerny at full stretch as the goalkeeper pushed the ball over for a corner.
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.
Kansas finally pulled ahead for the first time since midway through the first half when Elijah Johnson finished off a three-point play that made it 28-27 with 90 seconds left, but a pair of baskets by Price down the stretch gave the scrappy Hilltoppers a 31-30 lead at the break.
Healy replaced Warren Feeney and the substitute made an immediate impact with a low shot which had Mikkelsen at full-stretch.
Turning off mobile notifications and making an effort to use only one high-tech device at a time is a way to stretch our cognitive resources.
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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For a while, the California Highway Patrol closed a 10-mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway at Point Mugu.
He showed few signs of rust, however, striking out four in a row at one stretch in his 7 1-3 innings.
When Mr Gayford gets up to stretch, he takes a peek at the painting.
With five minutes of the first-half left, Charlie Mulgrew stepped up to place one of his trademark free-kicks and Hamilton keeper Tomas Cerny was at full stretch to parry the ball out for a corner.
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Then the outstanding Adam unleashed a curling left-footed effort, which Foster palmed away at full stretch.
Reforms may be hammered out in education and immigration and (at a stretch) the environment and the Social Security pension system.
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