Sentence examples for long protracted from inspiring English sources

Long, protracted courtships are not uncommon".

It's a long, protracted process.

"We know it's going to be a long, protracted process," she added.

After a string of long, protracted contract negotiations with his employees' union, a manufacturer was fed up.

"It's difficult to attract funding from traditional financial institutions, and it can be a long, protracted process," he said.

The director is a young Lebanese drama-therapist who put on a production of 12 Angry Men inside Lebanon's most notorious prison and filmed the long protracted process.

The decades-long protracted negotiations between North Korea and South Korea provides such a case study.

"This is the longest protracted spell of gold accruals since 1950-65, when central banks and treasuries acquired a net total of more than 7,000 tonnes during the economic recovery after the second world war," said David Marsh, the director of OMFIF.

But any settlement talks could be long and protracted.

Dutton acknowledged the process could be "long and protracted" but defended the need for security checks.

We had submitted our offer to acquire Valencia in December 2013 and did not expect that it is a long and protracted one.