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  • We went through a six-month period of nonsleeping with the little angel.

    Wherever You Go, There You Are | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • We went through a six-month period of nonsleeping with the little angel.

    Wherever You Go, There You Are 2007

  • Today, almost all “working” adults spend half of their nonsleeping lives being directed by managers.

    The General Managers John P. Kotter 1982

  • In between gigs, he battles with his new boss Lt. Tanya Rice (Alfre Woodard) and devotes all of his working and nonworking, nonsleeping hours to a single case involving the apparent abuse of an Alzheimer's patient who just happens to be a legendary Memphis disc jockey.

    LJWorld.com stories: News 2010

  • Don't put single beds in empty rooms called bedrooms, but instead put individual bed alcoves off rooms with other nonsleeping functions, so the bed itself becomes a tiny private haven.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

  • Don't put single beds in empty rooms called bedrooms, but instead put individual bed alcoves off rooms with other nonsleeping functions, so the bed itself becomes a tiny private haven.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

  • Don't put single beds in empty rooms called bedrooms, but instead put individual bed alcoves off rooms with other nonsleeping functions, so the bed itself becomes a tiny private haven.

    Apartment Therapy Main 2009

  • Not that she was complaining about the way they’d spent the nonsleeping hours.

    Magnolia Moon JoAnn Ross 2003

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