America suspended funding of such projects, a moratorium that dragged on foolishly.
These meetings triggered Senate investigations, hearings, and deliberations that dragged on for nearly four years.
The breakthrough ended nearly a year of tumultuous negotiations that dragged on far longer than anticipated.
After a standoff that dragged on for days, the state relented and scrapped its plan.
Neither team could have envisioned a game that dragged on for 14 innings.
A related court case sent the market into a slump that dragged on for nearly a decade.
A case in West Haven that dragged on for more than four years highlighted the problems with the process.
Aside from risking public outrage, a war that dragged on could also erode any benefits from helping the United States.
That game lasted 3 hours 27 minutes — or nearly half an hour longer than expected — and featured a first half that dragged on for about two hours.
But after Ms. Romano logged in, the system made her reconfirm everything in her application, a process that dragged on for 40 minutes.
Mr Sharon's invasion of Lebanon, as minister of defence in 1982, plunged Israel into a costly and pointless occupation that dragged on for two decades.
