Sentence examples for a long attrition from inspiring English sources

Then followed a long attrition of Japanese forces elsewhere in New Guinea and the islands, with Australia initially playing a major role and subsequently playing a role secondary to American forces.

Dreux was losing its factories to the long attrition of a global oil crisis about twelve years earlier, and to the end of another kind of recruitment — the recruitment of unskilled labor that had already brought some six thousand Muslim workers to a town of twenty-four thousand people.

The measured conventional attrition rate always decreases with time, even for a long-time attrition; therefore, a relative attrition rate is suggested.

It's going to be a long war of attrition".

Consequently, Israeli war strategists have begun talking about the possibility of a long war of attrition.

At the very least a long war of attrition lies ahead.

A long war of attrition developed between the house of Saul and the house of David.

A long war of attrition is likely to follow in March and April.

Is the battle over the digital support fund going to turn into a long war of attrition?

John Ralfe, a pensions expert, said Green and the Pensions Regulator now faced a "long war of attrition" and warned it will take years to resolve the standoff.

But ambushes and nighttime exchanges of fire remain common, and most outside experts say the region is destined to suffer a long war of attrition.