"protracted discussions" is a correct phrase and is commonly used in written English.
It refers to lengthy and prolonged discussions or talks. Example: The negotiations between the two countries have been ongoing for months and have now turned into protracted discussions.
What remains unclear is the position adopted by the joint chiefs during the protracted discussions.
These protracted discussions were still proceeding in February 1982, but on April 2 Argentina's military government invaded the Falklands.
Between June and August, Hurley resumed protracted discussions, both indirect and in conferences with high-level representatives from both sides.
He said the arrest coincided with "tense and protracted discussions" between Mr. Dunkley and the paper's local partners about the company, its ownership and senior leadership positions.
The protracted discussions with the Group of Seven (G-7) major industrial countries over the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were finally resolved on December 20.
However, despite protracted discussions with the former Leicester City, Celtic and Aston Villa manager's representatives, the club's owners are now resigned to missing out on their principal target.
The diplomatic record reveals protracted discussion on the level of coercion used, with Japan implying some women may have gone to brothels voluntarily.The Yomiuri cites the report as evidence that the Kono statement is full of problems.
And anyone who thinks that the philosophical ideas of positivism, naturalism and materialism are false and out of date, will find it an easy matter to refute the aesthetic or pseudo-aesthetic doctrines which mutually support them and are supported by them, and will not regard their problems as problems still awaiting solution or worthy of discussion or, at least, protracted discussion.
A protracted discussion about social issues, he said, could play into Democratic hands.
The protracted discussion about Mr. McCain allowed both candidates in this increasingly nasty race to suggest that the other was not telling the truth.
A prime example is his protracted discussion of an anonymous friend in Book IV, a pathos-ridden account that leaves no doubt about the importance of the relationship to Augustine.
