At the end of her tether

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I am wondering if my sentence sounds natural.

The class was so noisy and disruptive that a few minutes into her lesson, the teacher was at the end of her tether.
 
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Sounds perfect to my ear.
 
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"Rope" instead of "tether" in AmE.
 
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How about a comma after that?
 
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