He hoped that wasn't too great a stretch of the reality.
When there's a great long empty stretch ahead of me, I get out there and frantically try to find something else to do.
Which meant the job wasn't all that great a stretch.
It's no great stretch to imagine something similar happening again.
A great stretch of growth along the shore, untouched by the fire, had simply turned brown and died.
"Don't you think this is a great stretch of city?"
Only after peering all around the ship did he turn and look out across the great stretch of river.
When a man turned his coat once, it took no great stretch of the imagination to think he might do so again.
The Lakers' run to the title was one of the great stretches in league history.
Suddenly, the 130 years between then and now doesn't seem such a great stretch of time.