Sentence examples for much more protracted from inspiring English sources

Cobain's subsequent suicide was shocking enough, but Farmer's suffering was much more protracted as she was abused by her supposed carers over many years.

To have marched in the last legal Communist demonstration in Berlin in 1933 may have been an experience as delicious as protracted sexual intercourse (Hobsbawm's metaphor, not mine), but the experience of defending the indefensible and -- more insulting -- of being asked to believe the unbelievable was far less delightful and, equally to the point, very much more protracted.

"And in terms of regional recovery, it may be much more protracted given the Steinbeck-like moves of evacuees from city to city".

Wolves from different geographic locations may howl in different fashions: the howls of European wolves are much more protracted and melodious than those of North American wolves, whose howls are louder and have a stronger emphasis on the first syllable.

Typically, divergence time estimates made using molecular phylogenetic approaches have supported a much more protracted timeframe for primate evolution than that suggested by the fossil record [ 27, 33].

Studies of spinal cord injury using static compression have highlighted that neuronal loss is much more protracted in time in this type of trauma, than the loss observed after contusion injury.

In comparison to SIV- infection, the APP response was much stronger and more protracted in coinfected pigs.

You have a much more extended, protracted examination of the material, because there's time for it.

The effect of antiviral medications, vaccination campaigns, and, for instance, closure of schools and airports may alter the key characteristics of the pandemic, all having the effect that onset is delayed and that the course is more protracted, with a much lower peak (12 ).

But if the economic downturn proves more protracted than they expect, and if regulators force much more risk out of the banking sector, then Europe's finest may yet have to abandon their aspirations to stay in the top tier of the world's investment banks.

Yet if the economic downturn proves more protracted than he expects, and if regulators succeed in forcing much more risk and trading out of the banking sector, then Mr Jenkins may well wish that his surgery had been more radical.(Photo credit: AFP).