"a long deadline" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a date or time by which something must be completed, but which is a significant amount of time away. Example: "The professor gave us a long deadline to finish our research papers, so I have plenty of time to conduct thorough research and write a high-quality paper."
That long deadline for a renegotiation followed by a referendum is the position that will be repeated when the Queen is conveyed to Westminster this week to read out the government's programme.
Last month the museum abruptly cancelled publication of the contributions, blaming four Greek academics for failing to meet a year-long deadline to submit their papers.
But after winning a month-long deadline extension from the oversight panel, Mr. Davy -- working with child welfare officials virtually around the clock -- cobbled together a document four times its original size and layered with detail about where the system wanted to go, how it would get there and its cost.
She began writing children's books when she had her first and only child, Josh, who's now in his early twenties, and realised that the long deadlines of book writing suited her better than the tight ones of journalism.
In experiments comparing the effects of short and long deadlines on job offers, negotiation experts Harris Sondak and Max Bazerman found that "exploding offers lower the quality of matching outcomes".
It also helps in cheating, excuses, etc. Make sure you have long deadlines before you go for the 11th hour paper method!
But another federal law, the Equal Pay Act, has a long, three-year deadline for suing.
WRITING any serious tribute to the science journalist and editor, Sir John Maddox, can only really start a long time after deadline, with the assistance of a cigarette and a glass of wine.
