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Continuously, without interruption, as in It's been raining for days on end . This term, which might just as well be put “seemingly without end,” dates from about 1300.

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Lan Quoc Nguyen, who’d been an attorney for only three years, got involved by “negotiating with city staff and police to allow the protesters to stay” around the store property for hours on end.

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On Friday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US was not "going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end", as it had "other priorities to focus on".

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He was speaking after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US was not "going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end", as it had "other priorities to focus on".

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"She sat me down, and said: 'Joanne, you need to do something', and she sat with me for hours on end."

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I considered how, for days on end, I’d cried in the shower, doubled over in heartache.

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