Managers allow meetings to drag on for hours.
Because everyone was so passionate, the interviews would drag on for hours.
The academic-style discourse would drag on for hours without producing a single concrete conclusion; it would yield only increasingly esoteric questions".
Temperatures typically hit 100 degrees, power outages drag on for hours, heatstroke is common, and while monsoon rains bring some relief, they bring great ruin through widespread flooding.
"Meetings in the Arab world tend to drag on for hours and hours and hours," he said, but with Mr. Hamdallah, "I don't recall a meeting that took more than the required time".
But if you let them do it, it can drag on for hours….
You won't, however, have to sit and watch every player hit, so a full four-player round won't drag on for hours.
With 15 musicians and a bestiary of instruments, the Bright Eyes sound check starts at 3 and drags on for hours, sometimes right up until an 8 o'clock show.
When Aksar questioned security arrangements after seven foreigners were kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked Islamists from the desert town of Arlit, he was dragged in for hours of questioning by security officials.
During earlier troop deployments -- including the war in 1991 that drove the Iraqi Army out of Kuwait -- many families stayed with the soldiers until the final minutes, adding a ragged emotional edge to the leave-taking because the departure times dragged on for hours past the schedule.
