In contact with each other or in proximity.
1In the first days, Mausami slept-sixteen ,eighteen ,twentyhours at a stretch.
2He was still yawning; he had slept eighteen hours at a stretch.
3Now she merely sat by the fire for hours at a stretch.
4His tongue can roll and rattle for twelve hours at a stretch.
5One subtle answer may be true, or even at a stretch, two.
6You don't even deceive yourself, not for three minutes at a stretch.
7As far as references points go, we're at a stretch here.
8He was alert for as long as fifteen minutes at a stretch now.
9Besides, it would have meant eighteen hours in the air at a stretch.
10We were doing no more than seven miles at a stretch.
11Often he rode in a doze for miles at a stretch.
12All he could manage was three hours at a stretch before passing out.
13It might go eighty miles at a stretch, but I won't guarantee more.
14Sometimes he was away from home a fortnight at a stretch.
15I can take two watches at a stretch, if it comes to that.
16He would gallop as much as fifty versts at a stretch!