Sentence examples for protracted years from inspiring English sources

The third phase, endovascular egg production, is protracted (years) and is associated with organ damage (genitourinary, gastrointestinal, or ectopic migration to other organs).

O'Brien, his predecessor, had just been promoted to 11 35 after 16 years and a protracted, five-year transition of power from Leno.

But protracted over years and decades, the stings add up to a feeling of deep regret.

Using a large sample of 12,841 individuals, we report that the prevalence of major depression is 4.5% in adult patients attending primary care settings in the Northern Province, four years after the end of a protracted 30-year armed conflict.

Fez was released in April 2012 to widespread acclaim after a protracted five-year development cycle.

The high-profile and protracted five-year development of Fez led to its status as an "underdog darling of the indie game scene".

The game was called an "underdog darling of the indie game scene" during its high-profile and protracted five-year development cycle.

However, current demand for surgery in Canada outstrips capacity by at least 1000-fold, causing exponential increases in already protracted, multi-year wait-times.

"Our contacts at the Vatican and in Ireland expect the crisis in the Irish Catholic Church to be protracted over several years, as only allegations from the Dublin Archdiocese have been investigated to date.

The initiation of a collector into Turrell's realm can be protracted, often taking years between a buyer's receipt of the artist's plans and a work's completion.

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.