But it was the grueling travel that took its greatest toll on them both.

Williams's absence had taken its greatest toll on Barry Bonds.

In the Northeast, where snowstorms took their greatest toll, the jobless rate edged down to 5.7 percent from 5.8.

These practices have taken perhaps the greatest toll on land fertility since the end of French rule, mainly due to overpopulation pressures.

Of all the factors, though, fighting has caused the greatest toll.

Rather than the decline in income, it is the loneliness that seems to take the greatest toll.

The best example of this phenomenon was fever, which exacted the greatest toll of death.

But the greatest toll of all had been taken in his war against himself.

In the men's race, conducted the previous day, humidity and heat had taken the greatest toll on the athletes.

Some sickness and death would result, the greatest toll taken on outdoor life.