Sentence examples for substantial stretch from inspiring English sources

This would be a substantial stretch of its jurisdiction, one the agency might not want to make.

Then, for a substantial stretch of his solo, he dropped the left hand and concentrated on improvising a compelling line.

Recovery times for high ankle sprains vary widely, but it seems likely Amukamara will miss a substantial stretch.

Usually, when pitchers are out for a substantial stretch, they require six weeks to get their arms back in shape, a period that replicates spring training and includes about five minor league starts.

Another part of the Bush plan would turn over the tracks from Washington to Boston, the so-called Northeast Corridor and the only substantial stretch of track that Amtrak owns, to a new federal-state organization that would pay to upgrade it.

Whether he expected such a substantial stretch of privacy when he withdrew from New York is unknown, as is almost everything about his private life in a place that is not nearly so remote from the world as most of his readers supposed.

There are also footpaths along substantial stretches of the coasts of Sussex, Kent, Essex, Lincolnshire and Northumbria.

Two national parks, Snowdonia and Pembrokeshire Coast, incorporate substantial stretches of beach and cliff along the shoreline.

The custom also ignores the possibility that many people found substantial stretches of the last year to be singularly rotten, and have no desire to relive them.

Beginning in the early 1980s Mr. Gazzara spent substantial stretches of time acting in movies in Italy, where he had a villa in Umbria.

Patriarca was under constant investigation, and he spent substantial stretches of time in jail on various charges (the young Cianci once helped prosecute him), but even from jail he managed to exert administrative control over his organization.