Sentence examples for too protracted for from inspiring English sources

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.

Although recent decades have seen an improvement in the time taken to diagnose CH from onset [8], the diagnostic delay for this condition is still too protracted (more than 3 years in the most recent study [6]), as is the number of physicians consulted before arriving at the correct diagnosis (generally at least 3 medical doctors).

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.

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

Then, without too many protracted hugs, we headed back to Brooklyn.

It is a metaphor, beautifully conceived, for the falsity of excessively protracted mourning.

They are also protracted.

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