"stretch" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Till the Authority creepers caught him and sent him to Chonmas for a six-month stretch.
- Last year, in a six-month stretch, all five caseworkers in one of the Mount Vernon office's two Child Protective Service units left.
- Most of those to be freed are being held under "administrative detention," which allows suspects to be held for renewable six-month stretches without charges being filed.
- It had taken a month to reach the port from Hong Kong, a small section in the six-month stretches that he usually pulled on the ship.
- Deena Drossin is returning to run in New York, where last November she touched off a six-month stretch that has made her one of the world's most successful distance runners.
- With an increase, retail sales would complete their first six-month stretch without a decline since 1999.
- "Almost by definition, anything has to be better than the first half," Mr. Otellini said, referring to a six-month stretch in which sales plunged.
- Until they were nine, the children were all educated at Mkomazi by trainee teachers recruited for six-month stretches from the pages of the Times Educational Supplement.
- The game is the first step in the final six-month stretch before the Women's World Cup, which will be staged in the United States this summer.
- In February, the National Marine Fisheries Service estimated that 110 turtles were caught in a six-month stretch last year.
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