To make life feel more like a prolonged perfect day at the beach — the kind of day where you have fish and chips twice — and less like an eternal wet weekend in Rhyl, we occupy ourselves with tiny things that distract us from the doomed inevitability of it all.
What is known is that the questioning was prolonged, extending day and night for weeks.
The mean (95% CI) QTc (ms) was significantly prolonged on day 2 than at baseline in the DP group (P < 0.001) (Table 4).
In August worries about his health surfaced owing to his prolonged 19-day trip to Saudi Arabia for religious and medical reasons, but his vigorous return to public life allayed these fears.
There is ample evidence for the latter, since during prolonged long-day exposure and in non-seasonal animals, leptin resistance is positively correlated with body fat content (Friedman and Halaas, 1998).
It occurred to her that she could flag down a policeman, but she was exhausted, and saw little point in prolonging the day.
Robinson's book ends in characteristic fashion, with its feet planted firmly on the Iowa soil and its eyes fixed imploringly on heaven, as a dying man daily pictures Paradise but also learns how to prolong every day -- to extend time, even on earth, into a serene imitation of eternity: "Light is constant, we just turn over in it.
It illuminates and prolongs the day at the expense of the night; it allowed man to penetrate into caverns.
Once they were able to prolong the day's activities with electric lighting, families stayed up later.
But the most emotional moment of the tournament came Sunday evening, when Hoch made a decision that prolonged play another day.
