"long squeeze" is an appropriate phrase and can be used in written English.
It is most commonly used to refer to a situation in which the price of something, like a stock, is rising slowly or staying the same for an extended period of time. For example, you could say, "The stock market has been in a long squeeze this year, with prices staying relatively stable."
But even if it can survive a long squeeze, spending pressures are bound to re-emerge.
A long squeeze on the living standards of middle Britain came before a violent slump.
If you go "advanced" you can set a short squeeze and a long squeeze to do different things.
New social homes were to be financed centrally and run by local housing associations.It now looks like the long squeeze is over.
The long squeeze on investment in Iraqi oilfields has kept its production capacity far below the potential of a country with the world's second largest oil reserves.
The UK employment and unemployment figures may continue to beat expectations but what's really astounding is the unprecedentedly long squeeze on pay packets.
Most crucially, the new museum's 20th-century collection, long squeezed into the old Tate Gallery up river in London, now has ample room to breathe.
The court heard that Long squeezed the trigger of his gun eight times while no more than two metres from Rodney, shooting the suspect in the arm, body, twice around his right ear and then, after a pause of three-quarters of a second, twice through the top of his head, travelling down towards the base of his skull.
The court heard that Long squeezed the trigger of his gun eight times, shooting the suspect in the arm, body, twice around his right ear and then, after a pause of three-quarters of a second, twice through the top of his head, travelling down towards the base of his skull.
Long squeezed by both U.S. pressure and their own government, they had just cause for optimism.
Both groups feel cheated by the near decade-long squeeze on their living standards.
