Sentence examples for how overstretched from inspiring English sources

It vividly illustrates how overstretched the NHS has become.

In a sign of how overstretched we were all becoming, Abbey offered mortgages of five times salary.

We will carry on taking other types of industrial action to show how important our work is and how overstretched we are.

The figures were released in response to a Guardian freedom of information request that sheds new light on how overstretched staff in mental health units are increasingly on the receiving end of violence.

Relief eventually came in the form of more troops to bolster the 451 soldiers in the affected region, but the story gives an indication of how overstretched peacekeepers are.

In spite of the push on Mosul and Raqqa, Isis fighters managed a success this week, temporarily retaking Palmyra in Syria, a development that highlighted how overstretched the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, have become.

"This all goes to show how badly overstretched the army is at present," he said.

How closely would overstretched authorities look into failure to find an American?

So a Foreign Office Green Paper that considers how best to assist overstretched national and UN forces in the fast-growing area of international peace-keeping should not automatically be dismissed out of hand.

"I flew in from Buffalo this morning and when you said that we are working ourselves to death, I thought, 'That is my life!'" Another tells her how she's so overstretched that "I went to work last week and didn't realise until I got there that I had forgotten to put on my skirt!

How does this affect already overstretched lecturers in conventional British universities?