The Fiver loves the tortuously protracted build-up to a pointless friendly.
The problem we face now is that it is very hard to know who the adversary is going to be in five or 10 years you don't have this protracted build-up.
After the unseemly welter of words, mainly tiresome, tasteless trashtalk, that preceded the protracted build-up to last night's heavyweight happening in Hamburg, comes the welcome restoration of some semblance of nobility to the dark art.
The protracted "time to build" means that if property prices shoot up, only the builders who started work years ago benefit.
The show's first half-hour (and its high point) is built around a protracted, careering monologue from Valere, who, having dined at Elomire's table, proceeds to deliver a sustained ode to the importance of being Valere.
Three years in the making, Nielsson's film charts the painfully protracted back and forth that built the country's recent new constitution, with Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and their unwanted coalition partners, the Movement for Democratic Change, fighting to protect their opposite interests at every turn.
Go build your world of strict religious rule, protracted morality and over inflated sense of self importance.
Eric Pickles, the Communities Secretary, faces a protracted legal battle after he gave permission to allow developers to build on the site of Farm Terrace allotments in Watford, Hertfordshire.
He has 10 more games in Newark to build a following this season, and presumably 41 more next season, barring a protracted labor stoppage.
The project, already partly built, was held up by what many residents and officials say was mismanagement, protracted political battles, wasted money and even corruption.
He was critical of over-regulation and protracted hearings, which meant that by the 1980s similar boiling-water or pressurized-water plants took almost twice as long to build in the United States as in France, Japan, Taiwan or South Korea.
