Sentence examples for a bit protracted from inspiring English sources

For medical school students, the timeline is a bit protracted.

Its first half proceeds with such breathtaking dispatch and economy, taking us from the outbreak of war through the destruction of the Old South and ending with Scarlett's famous "As God as my witness" declaration, that the second half seems a bit protracted, concentrating as it does on the unhappy domestic life of Scarlett and Rhett.

That one is a bit more unfair, but it avoids protracted negotiations since VCs will offer you standard terms and don't plan on deviating much.

Gingrich instead set out a strategy for a protracted campaign.

He is a loud agitation in a protracted dead calm.

Director Brett Ratner knows this, but he would also argue quite rightly that none of those films ever broke Jackie to an international audience, their set-pieces were sometimes too protracted, and their humour a bit tiresome.

Lighten up, guys: it's just a blimp at a protest – basically a placard with a bit more buoyancy, really no need to have a protracted national debate over it.

Lighten up, guys: It's just a blimp at a protest basically a placard with a bit more buoyancy, really no need to have a protracted national debate over it.

What it means in wider terms is that the protracted recession – France's economy flatlining again, Germany a bit brighter – is unsettling politics-as-usual, but not overthrowing it.

It's a long, protracted process.

Tolu Akinsanya found himself in a similarly protracted situation.