Sentence examples for protracted enquiry from inspiring English sources

Raymarine said it believed the higher bid would be unlikely to be passed by competition authorities, and any protracted enquiry would damage its business, especially since it was reliant on its banking syndicate for continuing covenant waivers.

During protracted enquiries before the case came to law in 1871, details emerged suggesting that the Claimant might be Arthur Orton, a butcher's son from Wapping in London, who had gone to sea as a boy and had last been heard of in Australia.

A protracted silence.

They are also protracted.

Conflicts are becoming more protracted.

The result was protracted economic weakness.

Long, protracted courtships are not uncommon".

What is protracted war?

Another protracted silence.

Each issue has generated protracted debate.

This section is vague, diffuse, protracted.