The phrase "a protracted pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a long-lasting or extended series of behaviors, events, or trends.
Example: "The study revealed a protracted pattern of declining mental health among adolescents over the past decade."
Alternatives: "an extended series of" or "a prolonged trend of".
PC1: hepatic positive and negative acute-phase genes were the main influencers of a protracted pattern induced between 12 and 48 hours of infection, which explained 23% of the total variation in the dataset.
Anger toward the New Yorker fits with a more protracted pattern of disgust.
To a significant extent, the commissioner's endorsement of a quite obviously partial policy seems designed to reinforce, not discourage, protracted patterns of differentiation and recurrence in the theoretically "objective" selection process.
Yet the history of many fragile and conflict affected countries suggests that the full roles of the state may never have been achieved [ 11], and that their recurrent and protracted patterns of dysfunction are not transient, and liable to correction, but chronically entrenched.
The money is supposed to meet a "protracted balance-of-payments need".
This pattern relies on a protracted sequence of developmental steps, whereby different cell types are born at specific time points and nerve connections are formed in a tightly controlled sequence that has to be coordinated among the different visual neuropils.
The more general pattern of genomic similarity between these warblers likely results from a protracted period of hybridization, contradicting the broadly accepted hypothesis that admixture results from solely anthropogenic habitat change in the past two centuries [4].
He now faces the prospect of a protracted criminal trial of his former comrades.
Post dating the shelf-edge wedge, a protracted period of sediment starvation occurred, halting canyon development and stunting more elaborate erosion patterns such as those of other margins.
