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"Can we run these scripts for one more hour" - is this correct. | Present perfect progressive

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#1 (permalink) Thu Nov 13, 2008 13:12 pm have a purchase on sth

I have found this idiom somewhere - could anybody tell me what it means? Regards, Rafal

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#2 (permalink) Thu Nov 13, 2008 13:16 pm have a purchase on sth

a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage; "he could get no purchase on the situation"

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