Sentence examples for protracted for from inspiring English sources

"Their ordeal was then protracted for seven months, accompanied by further leaks to the news media.

Irony is too feeble a word for what they actually got: a losing war, protracted for four years and concluded -- with much additional humiliation -- on the same terms that Johnson and Hubert Humphrey had been offering in 1968.

(One such occasion was March 7 , 1960 when the unruly star came back to his post after walking out in a fit of pique, brought on by the network's decision to delete a mildly scatological joke and protracted for several well-publicized weeks).

Seen in what was claimed to be its first professional New York production, mounted by the Bronx Opera Company in the Lovinger Theater at Lehman College on Saturday night, the work readily showed its intrinsic shortcomings: a plot too whimsical for modern tastes, a wayward libretto, a girth too protracted for the frivolity of its material.

The most important aspect of the study is that the observation of patients was protracted for 48 h, in a clinical condition characterized by shortage of sophisticated diagnostic instruments.

Treatment will be protracted for at least 1 year after stenting (table 2).

However, protracted selection for the piebald character (rather than for the traits of the original breed) may create not a breed variant but new piebald breeds.

"But what I wasn't expecting was for my recovery to be so protracted and for it to be so painful.

Care of young is protracted, extending for as long as six months, among the longest for birds.

Prior to that the Germany midfielder had needed protracted treatment for a cut to his head.

And, semi-paralysis in the caja sector means less credit and a more protracted recovery for all.