The long days, missing meals and stress started to take a toll, especially on our feet.
"Despite my best efforts the stress really started to take its toll on my health".
The feeling of restlessness and fatigue started to take its toll and I spent more and more time alone.
Soon, indecision and the stress of her job started to take a toll on her health, Ms. Blydenburgh said.
But Mutombo's absence, along with that of guard Kerry Kittles, who has a sprained left knee, has started to take its toll, Coach Byron Scott said.
About six hours hard hiking up from the valley floor and three hours from the nearest road, I found myself wondering whether the thinner air at 2,100m above sea level had somehow started to take its toll.
City Center's ever-shifting plans for renovation have started to take a toll on the schedules of New York dance institutions, forcing American Ballet Theater to decamp to Mexico and Avery Fisher Hall in fall 2009 and leaving the Paul Taylor Dance Company in uncertainty.
The influx has started to take a toll on the amicable coexistence that prevailed for many years among Angolans and Zambians in this region, where many of them trace their ancestry to the same tribes.
But ultimately, the terror started to take its toll, such that the sound our ears became most often tuned to, as keenly as a safe cracker's, was the click of the front door closing that announced his departure.
By this point, the band were imploding, as musical differences, drug problems and personal disagreements – coupled with the pressure of five years in the public eye – started to take a toll.
