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at a stretch

Adverb

Meaning

at a stretch (not comparable)

(chiefly UK) In one continuous period of time; at a time.
Synonym: on a stretch
He worked for fifteen hours at a stretch.

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Examples

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower. Hugh Laurie

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. Barbara Ehrenreich

!) but most of it is down to the industry wide problem of games taking so long to make nowadays that most developers can only put out one or two a generation, maybe three at a stretch. Source: Internet

And thanks to the long-life rechargeable battery, which takes about eight hours to fully charge, riders can cruise for up to 40 minutes at a stretch. Source: Internet

I gamed on it for an average of six hours at a stretch, and never once was the console more than somewhat warm to the touch. Source: Internet

The "fine lad," of course, is the one of whom it is said "that if no one woke him, Taro would sleep three years at a stretch." Source: Internet

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