Root's 71/2-hour effort at Lord's was exactly the kind of innings he has in mind.
He said it was a desperate, 11th-hour effort to try and paint the father as something he is not.
In an 11th-hour effort to save their 20-year marriage, Mr. Slook booked a five-day cruise to Cozumel, Mexico, last December.
It was after she explained the arduous, half-hour effort after a shower to dry her bag with a hairdryer that Coloplast developed a water-resistant bag.
His latest two-hour effort, "Koppel on Discovery: Breaking Point," is a report on the "overloaded and understaffed" California prison system.
"I don't know if people understood the need for legislative action," said Malcolm A. Smith, the president of the State Senate, who ultimately backed a last-hour effort by the governor to raise the number of charter schools to 460.
According to several mathematicians who were active in the I.M.U. at the time, Yau made an eleventh-hour effort to have the congress take place in Hong Kong instead.
In Britain, the longest speech ever pronounced in the House of Commons – a six-hour effort on law reform by Henry Brougham, in 1828 – was, pleasingly, not even a filibuster.
D1 11th-Hour Effort on Budget City budget negotiations continued in hope of an agreement before the final voting session of the City Council, which is set for today.
With his new proposal, Mr. Kerry was also making what amounts to an 11th-hour effort to test Russian intentions in Syria, where the Kremlin has increasingly engaged militarily to defend Mr. Assad.
