Based on the latest 100m DAUs figure, that lead has since stretched considerably: in the second quarter of this year, Zynga reported 39m DAUs.
This time round, their unhappy fate is likely to be shared by Oscar Whisky, who was quick enough to finish third in the Champion Hurdle last year and has since stretched his speed comfortably to the intermediate distance.
It was Leo Castelli who perfected the latter role in the 1950s and 60s, though Larry Gagosian has since stretched it to an imperial extreme as owner of a global gallery chain this paper once called "the Starbucks of contemporary art".
As one of the not very many people who saw the 1998 Merchant Ivory movie "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries" (which I genuinely liked), I've hardly been surprised at the gathering rush of Anthony Roth Costanzo's career, which has since stretched from independent film into opera at the highest levels.
ISMD originated in 2012 with the New York City Sailor Moon Meet-Up and has since stretched to chapters all over the world, from San Francisco to São Paulo; Barcelona to Vancouver.
The baseball season has since gotten stretched, and Patriots' Day is now more of a weekend than a day.
Resources have been stretched thin since lightning ignited about 1,100 fires throughout the drought-ridden region.
The already overburdened resources of the National Park Service have been stretched even further since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, with hundreds of federal rangers reassigned to security details and many state parks even harder pressed as local law enforcement officers investigate anthrax scares.
According to the climbing company, the men have since descended from the upper stretches of the mountain.
This comically inward gaze is a great and troubling subject, and its ramifications have stretched further, since the movie was made, than Gregor Jordan could have dreamed.
