Rallies often dragged on from the baseline until someone committed an error, mostly Putintseva.
The budget soared from $12m to $30m and shooting dragged on from the scheduled six weeks to 16 months.
Still, the search has dragged on, from beaches to nightclubs, from posh hotel lobbies to street markets.
As the earlier war dragged on from the 1983 until 2002, many outsiders threw up their hands, leaving investors, donors and tourists to go elsewhere.
The War of the Bavarian Succession dragged on from the summer of 1778 to the spring of 1779, with neither side enhancing its reputation for military prowess.
But efforts to sell the company to Bain and THL dragged on from the time the deal was announced in late 2006, and came amid the beginning of the downturn in advertising spending and the financial markets.
The country will not see such exciting political times until the election proper gets into full swing in the autumn.Under America's old political calendar, the contest for the party nominations used to drag on from early February until June.
Even as the proceedings have dragged on from hearing to hearing, often with months of delays in between, Italian Culture Ministry officials have negotiated deals with American museums and private collectors, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Cleveland Museum of Art, for the return of artifacts said to have been looted.
He said he was prosecuted in Lebanese courts in a case that dragged on from 2005 to 2013.
Just as obviously, though, the angry demonstrations and organizing campaigns have nothing to do with the archaic right-left battles that dragged on from the Sixties to the Nineties.
