The phrase "a lengthy essay" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an essay that is long in terms of word count or content.
Example: "For my final project, I need to write a lengthy essay on the impact of climate change on biodiversity."
Alternatives: "an extensive essay" or "a long essay."
Newsweek ran a lengthy essay about "W.," which concluded that the film was, "surprisingly, more or less fair".
The New Yorker, October 5, 1968 P. 141 Review of Jean-Luc Godard's film "Weekend," and a lengthy essay.
feels less like a book and more like a lengthy essay that someone might write for The New York Review of Books.
Mark Zuckerberg welcomed his first child into the world on Wednesday with a lengthy essay pledging to make the world a better place for her to live in.
The Soviet-inspired design is echoed in the catalog, which includes a lengthy essay on the development of the library's Slavic division.
If you want to read a lengthy essay, complete with journal citations, about the company's philosophy of eating, it's on the company blog.
He wrote an excellent lengthy essay for The Electric Muse: The Story of Folk into Rock (1975).
The New Yorker, March 3 , 1975P. 79 Lengthy essay on "Nashville", a Robert Altman film.
By Pauline Kael The New Yorker, March 3 , 1975P. 79 Lengthy essay on "Nashville", a Robert Altman film.
As with Tumbao's last major reissue -- a set of the complete recordings by the Cuban conguero Chano Pozo -- this set comes with a lengthy biographical essay in Spanish and English.
In a lengthy catalog essay, Mr. Gewirtz argues, not unpersuasively, that Poe deliberately exaggerated and even parodied the conventions of Gothic writing in a way that we would now call postmodern, yet that doesn't fully account for how nervous and overheated the prose sometimes becomes — for those moments when, behind the feigned derangement, you sometimes detect inklings of the real thing.
