Almost all of Coventry's centre was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombs, which were dropped on the city over a stretch of 11 hours on 14 November 1940.
Who thought that in a stretch of 24 hours, Venus Williams's great accomplishment — a fifth women's singles championship — would be dwarfed by a tennis marathon?
I would study the Koran with concentration for a stretch of two hours, take a break, walk the 22 paces I had marked out in my room, do some stretching and then resume my Koranic reading.
His words marked the end of a stretch of 48 hours during which the pope remained outside public view, resting on a secluded island about 60 miles north of here.
Across a stretch of 36 hours in New York, circumstances are bringing together, for the first time in this campaign and amid apprehension about the November election, two political leaders who long eyed each other suspiciously and who disagreed so strongly, both publicly and privately: Most of the language in that first sentence is stolen, but when we steal, we steal well.
I'm positive I read John Drebinger the next morning, though — and then read him again: "Pitching of a superman variety that dazzled a crowd of 50,000 and bewildered the Cardinals gave the Giants two throbbing victories at the Polo Grounds yesterday over a stretch of six hours.
Shiseido's self-tanning moisturizing gel ($20 at Macy's) is designed to mimic the process of a real suntan gradually, with color emerging over a stretch of several hours, while Frédéric Fekkai's Self-Bronzer with Shea butter ($22.50 at Neiman Marcus) subtly shades the skin through a series of applications.
That's how he puts it, as if night isn't a stretch of empty hours to endure, but a place to enter, to discover whole worlds inside.
For the previous several days, the Dignity I, a boat operated by Médecins Sans Frontières, had been patrolling a stretch of the Libyan coast eight hours east, eight hours west, just beyond territorial waters—searching for migrants but finding none.
As the night wore on, a group of protesters ran on to a freeway ramp, shutting down a stretch of Interstate 580 for hours while hundreds more gathered downtown, police said.
Newport Beach lifeguards lifted the closure of a stretch of coastline Monday afternoon, hours after an 8-foot hammerhead shark was seen off the Newport Pier.
