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  • For Wills, the thirty-hour mission to Afghanistan was important for other reasons, as well.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Called to her bedside after one of her longer seizures, I am only three hours into a thirty-hour shift when Frances musters the rare effort and actually coughs.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • For Wills, the thirty-hour mission to Afghanistan was important for other reasons, as well.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • Called to her bedside after one of her longer seizures, I am only three hours into a thirty-hour shift when Frances musters the rare effort and actually coughs.

    Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011

  • With extra fat, yes, but also with sleep deprivation, with the nightmarish transformation of my beautiful non-medicated birth into a thirty-hour induction culminating in surgery and a painful recovery, and with the certainty that I would never be able to leave my house or cook my own meals again due to the seven-and-a-half pounds of humanity that had taken over my life.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • With extra fat, yes, but also with sleep deprivation, with the nightmarish transformation of my beautiful non-medicated birth into a thirty-hour induction culminating in surgery and a painful recovery, and with the certainty that I would never be able to leave my house or cook my own meals again due to the seven-and-a-half pounds of humanity that had taken over my life.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • He wandered the floor until he came to a room housing one Julia Lennon, who had just endured a thirty-hour labor.

    PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010

  • After a dangerous thirty-hour journey by car to Iran, Uncle Azad managed to get Father to a hospital.

    A Woman Among Warlords Malalai Joya 2009

  • The train ride there, a thirty-hour trip in May 2002, marked his first time out of the region where he was born.

    A Russian Soldier’s Story 2006

  • The train ride there, a thirty-hour trip in May 2002, marked his first time out of the region where he was born.

    A Russian Soldier’s Story 2006

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