The phrase "a lengthy evening" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an evening that feels long, either due to the duration or the events that took place.
Example: "After a lengthy evening of discussions, we finally reached a consensus on the project."
Alternatives: "an extended evening" or "a prolonged evening".
Or a dull evening with a date: "Saturday nights he takes me to the dining room at his club: long windows, long portraits, a lengthy evening".
This is a lengthy evening – five pieces, including The Hunt, a promising all-male work by Battle – and it ends with the Ailey signature ballet, Revelations.
The Max von Sydow character, Siegfried's blacksmith stepfather, who is a firm believer in the old ways, goes to his death with a smile on his face, and it must be because he's remembering a hook-up not long before, when after a lengthy evening of feasting he meets a younger woman, a Christian convert, who decides that for this one night she'll be a pagan again.
The White House and the Justice Department maintain that the Senate was on a lengthy absence, even though it considered itself to be meeting regularly, when Mr. Obama made the recess appointments.
WASHINGTON — President Obama had the lawful power to consider the Senate to be on a lengthy absence — even though it considered itself to be meeting regularly — when he made a set of highly disputed recess appointments last week, the Justice Department concluded in a legal memorandum disclosed on Thursday.
Issuing the new sentencing guidelines, Judge, sitting with Mr Justice Butterfield and Mr Justice Flaux, said the possession of firearms was a serious enough offence to justify a lengthy sentence, even if the defendant had argued at trial that there were no aggravating factors.
"I rise today in opposition to Obamacare," Cruz said, launching what promised to be a lengthy speech even as his own party leaders criticized his approach just steps away from the chamber.
Evolution as an idea has a lengthy history, even though the idea of evolution is generally associated with Darwin today.
His reference was to Mr. Topolewski's work history, which is lengthy even by Madison Avenue standards.
The interviews are lengthy, even more if one wants to enrich the Space-Time Budget (STB) data with background information of the respondents.
The route to diagnosis could be complex and lengthy, even when men presented late in their illness and were in need of specialist psychiatric services.
