"protracted cycle" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means a lengthy or prolonged cycle or process. Example: The protracted cycle of negotiations between the two countries lasted over a year before a peace agreement was reached.
Analysts expect that move to be the first step in a protracted cycle of rate increases.
Last week — after a protracted cycle of teasing, speculation, and delay — the John Dory Oyster Bar was almost ready to open.
Then, this last year, after another protracted cycle of negotiations, the company mandated the implementation of another health insurance program that Peterson said was not worth enough for anyone in the company to use it.
Zolotova and Ponyavin (2014) reported that the protracted cycle 23 is similar to the cycles immediately preceding the Dalton and Gleissberg-Gnevyshev minima, suggesting that the Sun is heading toward such a grand minimum.
What I believe is that everything is written in the stars--the story of our planet, our solar system, our own individual existences--all existed in blueprint form and go through a protracted cycle of birth, life and death.
More debt may be undesirable, but a protracted deflationary cycle would be agonizing.
"We won't experience all the fears of the 20th century like war, dangerous inflation or protracted down cycles.
Dugongs, which are classified as vulnerable to extinction, have long lifespans and protracted breeding cycles and give birth to single offspring at irregular intervals, implying a complex pedigree without distinct generational structure or large sibling groups.
Accordingly, cells co-treated with chemotherapy and phenothiazines underwent protracted cell-cycle arrest followed by checkpoint escape that led to abnormal mitoses, secondary arrest and/or a form of apoptosis associated with increased endogenous oxidative stress and intense vacuolation.
And given how protracted our election cycles have become, he may get his wish.
She said the protracted election cycle demonstrated that "the people of South Ossetia have overcome their fear".
