'lengthy summary' is correct and can be used in written English in a variety of contexts.
For example, "This paper provides a lengthy summary of the scientific research on the subject."
But "the mere fact that you've got to offer a lengthy summary implies that it's too early to sort it out".
To most people's surprise, a lengthy summary also appeared in the Austrian Catholic press agency's bulletin (Kathpress-Info No 416 of 29 April) which was available on the internet for a time but later withdrawn.
As outlined in an excellent, lengthy summary on the Two Hundred Percent website, the latter stages of the campaign have been studded by the usual wearying claims of backroom dealing.
After a lengthy summary of Polanski's tragic past, Gold wrote, "Possibly not since Renaissance Italy has there been such a gathering of creative minds in one locale as there has been in Los Angeles County during the past half-century.
He sponsored a two-page ad containing a lengthy summary of his views in the Wall Street Journal, and set up a blog on which he promised to answer strangers' e-mails.
The group, drawn from the eight countries with territories inside the Arctic Circle, has just issued a report called "Impacts of a Warming Arctic", a lengthy summary of the principal scientific findings.
This generated lengthy summaries that had limited utility.
It includes graphs inspired by Christensen's "Innovator's Dilemma," along with a lengthy, glowing summary of the book's key arguments.
A copy of the report's lengthy executive summary, 14 findings and six recommendations was provided to The New York Times by a person who wanted to make sure that the report received wide attention.
The documents, reviewed by The Times, include two lengthy F.B.I. summaries of the information gathered against Mr. Al-Arian and a 22-page request for assistance sent to Israel in late 1999.
As Mr Yusuf wistfully remarks, the slender first report won a worldwide readership but few people now read past the lengthy executive summaries.Despite the bank's best efforts, economic growth remains a mystery: no one really knows why some countries sustain it over decades and others do not.
