Sentence examples for more protracted than from inspiring English sources

(See: "Rita Recovery May Be More Protracted Than Katrina's").

The homebuilding slump has proved deeper and more protracted than expected.

Oops! Lagarde's colleagues, meanwhile, warned that the recession could be "more protracted than previously anticipated".

The disagreement means the move will be slightly more protracted than it could have been.

This is cyclical and will change in time, but the downturn is proving more protracted than most bankers expected.

As television endings go, it has been more protracted than Rachel and Ross's painfully drawn-out relationship.

The tribal militias, known as lashkars, have quickly become a crucial tool of Pakistan's strategy in the tribal belt, where the army has been fighting the Taliban for more than two months in what army generals acknowledge is a tougher and more protracted slog than they had anticipated.

Here, we refer to variability that occurs two hours after the onset of undirected singing – a more protracted timescale than the minute-to-minute changes driven by social context, e.g. [44], [45].

Nevertheless, hydrologic connectivity was more protracted in 1998 than would be likely during a 'normal' precipitation year.

"Human suffering is far more protracted and severe than anything we would allow in animals," he told me.

As in the last century, that process is bound to be more protracted and erratic than we predict.