"a protracted wait" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are describing a wait that is longer or more drawn-out than usual. For example, "After much delay, we experienced a protracted wait for the bus to arrive."
One night, after a protracted wait, crags of house-made mango kulfi (a dense ice-cream-like concoction of caramelized condensed milk) arrived half-melted.
But the director of the Jakarta Legal Aid Institute LBHH Jakarta) and co-chair of Suaka (the Indonesian Civil Society Network for Refugee Rights Protection), Febi Yonesta, says as thousands have a protracted wait, the issue goes beyond stopping the boats.
More difficult to judge is when exactly the growing boy knew enough to be told or, more likely, to grasp for himself the delicate, unmentionable fact that in a family of long-living women, his was sure to be a protracted wait to inherit the throne to which – on the death of his grandfather, George VI, 15 months earlier – he had immediately become heir apparent.
To some experts, that suggests that Google could end up winning a protracted waiting game.
The most likely scenario is a protracted waiting game, a hope that the caliphate implodes or that the medics become disillusioned by the increasing barbarism of Isis.
While DuPuy acknowledged that the protracted wait in finding the Expos a new home had been frustrating, he said it had worked to baseball's favor from a financial perspective.
While the protracted wait for the presence of an MLS team here in South Florida stretches on and on, the NASL, ever the chancers when it comes to identifying potential hotbed soccer markets, have made their move.
Discussing the protracted wait for results from the northwest corner of Indiana, Andrea Mitchell said on MSNBC around 10 15 p.m. that "we just don't have the raw vote".
Second, these protracted wait times abrade the patience of teams and encourage teams to decide without data.
The ramifications of protracted wait times on health and health care costs have not previously been examined.
The Waiting List Impact Questionnaire (WLIQ) [ 23], adapted from a study of wait times for coronary revascularization was administered to assess the perceived impact of protracted wait times on health status.
