Sentence examples for protracted construction from inspiring English sources
But next to the stadium is a lingering eyesore - a protracted construction project that was supposed to have been transformed into three public ball fields months ahead of opening day.
Although the new space, known as Shoppers' Park, may ultimately benefit all the shops in the area, the protracted construction work has deterred shoppers, who don't know where to park.
MOSCOW — Environmentalists on Tuesday appeared to lose a protracted battle to prevent construction of a highway through one of the Moscow region's last remaining forests, just months after President Dmitri A. Medvedev succumbed to a public outcry and temporarily halted the project.
The design was completed quickly, but the construction of the five flying prototypes was protracted by the factory's inexperience in building metal aircraft.
Mr. Bloomberg's reliance on Albany raised the prospect of a protracted political battle and prompted critics to charge that many of the construction projects that the mayor proposed amounted to little more than a wish list.
There followed protracted negotiations between the US and Israeli governments which resulted, in November 2009, in Netanyahu reluctantly acceding to a temporary construction freeze in West Bank settlements.
He now concluded that his seemingly senseless, extremely protracted efforts to align his sentences on the right side of Microsoft Word were in fact generating unusual syntactical constructions and strange word choices.
They are also protracted.
Conflicts are becoming more protracted.
