Yes, there were occasional full-length struggles: Carlos Moya, the fourth-seeded player, dodged an upset in five sets against Juan Ignacio Chela of Argentina, and the crafty left-hander Magui Serna of Spain wore down Ashley Harkleroad, 18, of the United States in three.
Northern Ireland is even tougher to assess, given the length of struggle and extent of influences on the current state of play there.
Young uses guitars, drums and horns to narrate a tale, over 18 minutes in length, of struggling farmers and factory workers hit hard by government taxes, drugs and crime.
But by age four, he had twice as much muscle as other boys his age, and could hold a six-pound dumbbell, horizontally, at arm's length, a struggle for some grownups.
He spoke at length about his struggles with depression, which he revealed last summer after holding out from training camp.
Miller, who is slated to return to the big screen alongside James Marsden and Eric Stonestreet in the forthcoming thriller "The Loft," also spoke at length about his struggles with depression.
The president spoke at length about the struggle with terrorism in Afghanistan and elsewhere, staking out positions that at times seemed more comparable to those of his predecessor than many of Mr. Obama's more liberal supporters would like.
We noted the time of the onset of the female kicking behaviour and calculated the length of the struggle between partners.
We know they're angels, but Abraham and Sarah and Jacob and Joshua invariably mistake them for regular people, and we must watch at some length as each character struggles to understand who their mysterious visitors are.
Their best healthy big man, Emeka Okafor, struggles against length, which the Lakers have plenty of in Gasol and Bynum.
"One of the myths is that PE is a young man's problem and that once he learns how to have sex and be more aware of his arousal the problem will go away," says sex therapist and author Dr. Ian Kerner, who has written at length about his own struggles with PE. "But in truth most men who suffer from PE suffer from it chronically for the course of a lifespan".
