The sacrosanct 40-hour week is being stretched to 42 hours in Portugal.

I might be able to stretch it to eight hours, maybe a little more.

This gets worse in summertime, when the window of opportunity stretches to 10 hours a day.

There were four encores on the second night, stretching the concert to over 3 hours.

"A few minutes" stretched to nine and a half hours.

Sam moved to a keyboard and began to take notes, as the tactical session stretched to almost two hours.

A meeting planned to last an hour stretched to five hours as he became intrigued with Spectrum's technology.

A year ago, it would have been stretched to eight hours.

Imagine a stage soliloquy stretched to four or five hours, with only an occasional break.

It runs for 90 minutes, which will be stretched to two hours tonight to include pledge-week breaks.