Sentence examples for have stretched for from inspiring English sources

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At times, the lines outside gas stations have stretched for miles.

But the longest All-Star Game, by time, would have stretched for six or seven hours, if necessary.

Supermarket lines have stretched for hundreds of metres, with thousands of people waiting to shop, and scuffles sometimes break out when products arrive.

If such things had been offered to every dying man in this town, then the line of men waiting to die would have stretched for miles.

At the same time, he hailed the finality of the settlement, which cut short a legal battle that could have stretched for years, and said the path was open now for the team to return to a position of success.

This is all very messy and complicated, but I don't know of any family that isn't, that doesn't carry around its own encyclopedia of conflicts, resentments, disappointments and fights that have stretched for decades.

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And she has stretched for 20 minutes.

The wait had stretched for more than three months.

There had been another case that had stretched for a little over a year.

Both said they hadn't expected the conflict, which had stretched for more than three years, to last so long.

Strong growth in company earnings have underpinned a bull run in stocks that has stretched for nearly six years.

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